MenuBrexit may not be catastrophic for the London Stock Exchange, despite naysayers’ dire prophecies. En+ Group, an integrated hydro power and aluminum producer owned by the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, is mulling an initial public offering in London this summer to raise as much as $2 billion. This would be Russia’s biggest public share offering
Monthly Archives: May 2017
By Changing Alphabet, Kazakhs Take Another Step Toward the West
Kazakhstan has decided to switch alphabets, from Cyrillic to Latin script, by 2025. After decades of Russian and Soviet domination, countries are developing their own cultural code, though some feel uneasy about the change. Yet the Latin alphabet will only boost Kazakhstan’s international integration and its economic, technological, and scientific development. Plus, Latin script isn’t new to
Dr. Cohen on FoxNews – May 21, 2017
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Cohen: France under Macron won’t change position on Karabakh conflict
By Anakhanum Hidayatova – Trend: Despite the fact that France has always supported Armenia, Paris won’t change its position on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after Emmanuel Macron’s becoming France’s new president, says Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Institute for Analysis of Global Security. In general, France’s policy in the South Caucasus doesn’t seem to
Trump’s first 100 days: the foreign policy report card
The Huffington Post By Ariel Cohen May 8, 2017 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5910763de4b046ea176aed40 Many in Washington feared Trump would sell out to Russia. That never happened. Sanctions against Russia over Ukraine are in place. Syria was hit with 59 Tomahawk missiles. Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. To quote Nikki Haley,