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Arctic Ice Melt Lifts Hopes for Russian Maritime Trade
Jan 27 2012 // When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. The relief mission through perilous, ice-choked seas was...
WTO Risks its Future by Keeping Doha Talks Alive
Dec 28 2011 // The 153 members of the World Trade Organization agree on two things: We’re in a hole. And we must keep digging. The hole is the Doha Development Round, a decade-old negotiation that was billed as the next stage of...
Ratings: Transsib Re, Tokio Marine Pacific, MAPFRE Panama, Union Nationale, Sovereign (NZ), Labuan Re, Tugu, ARIG
Dec 22 2011 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has upgraded the issuer credit rating to “bb+” from “bb” and affirmed the financial strength rating of B (Fair) of Russia’s OJSC Transsiberian...
Russian Oil Rig Sinks; More than 50 Feared Dead
Dec 19 2011 // A drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off Russia’s far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while being towed through a winter storm, leaving more than 50 dead or missing in the icy Sea of...
WTO approves Russia’s Membership after Marathon Meeting
Dec 16 2011 // Russia was admitted into the World Trade Organization on Friday after 18 years of negotiation, finally binding it into the global economy two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia’s $1.9 trillion economy...
Russian Aviation Safety Facing Criticism After Hockey Team Crash
Dec 1 2011 // A prominent Russian lawyer said Wednesday he will challenge the powers of a regional aviation watchdog following a crash that killed an entire Russian professional ice hockey team and other recent air disasters that have...
Reuters Analyst Warns World Must Keep Focus on Climate Risk
Nov 17 2011 // Gerard Wynn, a Reuters market analyst, has expressed his own views on the necessity of continuing to deal with the challenges presented by extreme weather and its global impact. Rising temperatures are driving more...
Ratings Recap: Gulf, Unity Re, Connaught, Macau
Sep 29 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to ‘C++’ (Marginal) from ‘B’ (Fair) and issuer credit rating (ICR) to ‘b’ from of ‘bb+’ of Gulf Insurance...
West, Russia Divided on U.N. Security Council Climate Role
Jul 20 2011 // Western nations clashed with Russia and developing countries Wednesday over whether climate change was a security matter meriting the attention of the Security Council, the most powerful U.N. body. Diplomats said Russia...
Best Affirms SOVAG’s Ratings; Outlook Stable
Jul 18 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and the issuer credit rating of “bbb” of Germany’s SCHWARZMEER UND OSTSEE Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft SOVAG, both...
Europe’s Lethal E.coli Strain May be Deadliest Yet
Jun 3 2011 // More than 1,600 people have been infected by a toxic strain of E.coli bacteria that has killed at least 17 and may be the deadliest yet in human history, health officials said on Friday. Germany is at the center of the...
Russia Bans EU Vegetables Due to E.coli Fears
Jun 2 2011 // Russia banned imports of raw vegetables from the European Union on Thursday because of a deadly E.coli outbreak centered in Germany, Russian media cited the head of the consumer protection agency as saying. “A ban on...
Study Forecasts Ice Melt Will Close off Arctic’s Interior Riches
May 31 2011 // Global warming will likely open up coastal areas in the Arctic to development but close vast regions of the northern interior to forestry and mining by mid-century as ice and frozen soil under temporary winter roads melt,...
Arctic Nations Step up Cooperation on Safety, Oil Spills
May 13 2011 // Arctic nations agreed on Thursday to improve cooperation including on preventing oil spills as a thaw of ice and snow opens access to the remote region’s rich mineral and petroleum resources. The Arctic Council,...
Arctic Nations Meet to Chart Future of World’s Final Frontier
May 10 2011 // Leaders of Arctic nations will gather in Greenland this week to chart future cooperation as global warming sets off a race for oil, mineral, fishing and shipping opportunities in the world’s fragile final...
Lloyd’s Chaucer in Deal for First Russian Coverholder
Apr 6 2011 // Chaucer Syndicates Limited announced a new partnership with Nakhodka Re in Moscow and RFIB Ltd in London to launch SeaLine, as the first Lloyd’s coverholder in Russia. “Chaucer and RFIB acted as sponsors to...
Study Finds Auto Insurance and Services Add Profits for Car Makers, Dealers
Feb 16 2011 // Sales by car manufacturers and dealers of additional services to car buyers may mean the difference between profit and loss. A new study from the financial market research group Finaccord concluded that sales of...
Russia’s $3.6 Billion VTB Bank Roadshow Hooks Italy’s Generali
Feb 7 2011 // An overseas roadshow by VTB to raise some $3.6 billion got off to a solid start on Monday, lining up Italy’s Assicurazioni Generali SpA as a key shareholder in Russia’s second-largest lender. Investors are...
35 Dead, over 150 Injured by Suicide Bomber Attack on Moscow Airport
Jan 25 2011 // A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport on Monday, state TV said, in an attack on the capital that bore the hallmarks of militants fighting for an Islamist state in the North Caucasus...
Firms Vulnerable In Corrupt Practices Crackdown
Jan 19 2011 // Authorities have been escalating their campaign against corruption in the last few years, resulting in a sharp spike in enforcement actions in the United States and the enactment of a new anti-bribery law in the United...
