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That’s odd, I thought, during the early going of Ali Abbasi’s new film, “Border.” I wonder why it’s in Swedish. I’d gone to Manhattan’s IFC Center this past weekend intending to see a different film, “Roma,” arriving with what I’d…
A plan by Chinese and Russian officials to set up a payment system to boost the use of their own currencies in bilateral and international trade is imperative, Chinese experts said on Sunday, to counter what they called the US…
BEIJING (Sputnik) – The strengthening of protectionism and the impedance of trade wars are the additional incentives for the development of Chinese-Russian cooperation, Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia’s energy giant Rosneft, said on Thursday. “The peculiarities of the existing political…
Falling oil prices are likely to come into focus at the upcoming OPEC meeting on 6 December in Vienna, Austria. However, Saudi Arabia’s willingness to resort to dramatic cuts in order to balance the energy market raises questions amid mounting…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Bitcoin has now “deflated like a soap bubble” but boosted investments in new technologies, Russian Economic Development Minister Maksim Oreshkin said Wednesday. ‘You may recall what I said, for example, last year, when Bitcoin’s price jumped up to $20,000,…
China’s top health body on Monday demanded local authorities investigate an experiment that allegedly successfully created the world’s first genetically altered twins, which has sparked ethical concerns and waves of criticism from around the world. The National Health Commission said…
