ECB's Draghi calls money market rates 'unwarranted' By Aija Krutaine RIGA (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said Thursday that the recent rise in bank-to-bank borrowing costs was unwarranted. His comments come a week after the central ...
Sept. 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
Central Asia: In for a Bumpy Ride in 2014 and Beyond? This past weekend, I had the chance to host a discussion aimed at forecasting Central Asia’s geopolitical prospects in the coming years. It won’t come as a surprise to many that the consensus prognosis was generally glum with occasional periods of unrestrained pessimism. The discussion was part of the Riga Conference 2013, an annual event in the Latvian capital that attracts political movers and ...
Sept. 9, 2013 - EurasiaNet
With anti-gay law backlash, Stoli stresses its non-Russian side RIGA, Latvia - When a number of prominent Americans, outraged by what they saw as a rising tide of state-sponsored homophobia in Russia, called for a boycott of Stolichnaya vodka this summer, they had no more eager ally against Moscow than Kaspars Zalitis, a gay rights advocate here in Latvia, a Baltic nation with a long and painful experience with Russia's oppression of minorities.
Sept. 8, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette