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US President Barack Obama and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk will discuss the situation in Crimea, economic support and preparations for presidential polls of Ukraine on March 12, said Yevgeny Perebiynis, Director of the Information Policy Department of the Foreign Ministry, Interfax reports.
Tbilisi will host the Strategy of Monetary Policy International Conference today, initiated by the National Bank, Trend reports.President of the National Bank Georgy Kadagidze will open the conference. It will be attended by Masoud Ahmed, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the IMF, Zdenek Tuma, ex-Governor of the Czech Central Bank.
Kiev needs about $13 billion to pay its debts, Ukrainian Minister for Economic Development and Trade Pavel Sheremet says, ITAR-TASS reports.According to the minister, the country has gold reserves worth $15 billion.He said an IMF mission …
What if Ukraine signs the association agreement with the EU?
How the West replaces the ineffective post-Soviet elite
Second Lord of the British Treasury George Osborne said today that the UK was offering financial aid to Ukraine via the IMF, RIA Novosti reports.He reminded that the people of Ukraine had demonstrated their will to have closer ties with …
External financing is needed to stabilize the situation
Leonid Vardomsky, head of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies of the Department of International Economic and Political Studies of the Institute of Economics, spoke about how the political crisis affects the hryvna and the economic situation in Ukraine in general.
The EU is ready to help the nonexistent government
Deputy Director of the Institute of Economic Forecasting Alexander Shirov speaks about the economic impact of the political crisis in Ukraine. With meetings and demonstrations resulting in seizures of several ministries and administrative buildings in the capital, as well as in several areas in the west and center of the country, no one in the opposition pays attention to the fact that Ukraine, which had been on the brink of bankruptcy even before the protests, is now slipping into deeper economic crisis.
“Firm will” of the authorities and radicalization of the society
if it continues turning into a branch of the EU
The official representative of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF), William Murray, says that its delegation will visit Iran this week."At the consultations it is planned to discuss how to restore macroeconomic stability and begin to solve the problems posed by the continuing long-term weakening of the national economic structure," ITAR-TASS quotes Murray.This is the first trip of this kind for more than two years. It will start as expected, on January 25. The task of the IMF delegation is an assessment of the current state of Iran's economy.
Iranian Minister for Science Reza Farajidana said that the country was losing $150 billion and 150,000 scientists every year due to the brain drain problem. The IMF said in a 2009 report that Iran had the highest rate of scientists leaving the country. About 150,000-180,000 scientists migrate from Iran. Tehran has been taking certain measures to prevent the process in recent years.
At least this is how Moscow sees it
Associate membership does not prevent economic relations of Russia and Ukraine
"Russia in Talks With Ukraine Over Possible Loan" is an article published today by the Wall Street Journal. "A loan and cheaper gas from Russia would be a lifeline for Ukraine's recession-hit economy but would risk further infuriating protesters who have been camped out for weeks on Kiev's main square demanding closer ties with Europe and an end to economic and political dependence on Russia," the article reads.
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Ukraine might turn into a new “Egypt”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov told parliament that Ukraine had to halt signing of an association agreement with the EU due to economic factors, Interfax reports.The official clarified that the position of the IMF expressed in a …
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Merkel defies Putin
