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Worldwide, 128 economies introduced substantial regulatory improvements making it easier to do business in all areas. The BRIC economies—Brazil, the Russian Federation, India and China—introduced a total of 21 reforms, with getting electricity and trading across borders the most common…
Washington has been putting external pressure on EU states over the Russian-European Nord Stream 2 project and repeatedly threatened to impose sanctions on the involved entities. The US cites security and energy independence reasons, while promoting more expensive US LNG.…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos will carry out 17 space launches in 2018 and over 35 launches in 2019, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik. “If this year we have only 17 launches, then next [year] we…
BEIJING (Sputnik) – China successfully launched the BeiDou-3 satellite, the 41st satellite to join the nation’s BeiDou navigation system, atop the Long March 3B carrier rocket, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Friday. The lift-off took…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Three Syrian servicemen were killed and four others were injured in an attack by illegal armed groups in the country’s western Hama province, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Center for Syrian Reconciliation said. “Despite the ceasefire regime being…
LONDON (Sputnik) – UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Thursday held a meeting with Raed Saleh, the leader of the White Helmets, to discuss the group’s activities in Syria, the Foreign Office said in a statement. “Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt…
