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by **supporttheunderdog** » Sun Nov 17, 2013 1:20 am

kurupetos wrote:
yialousa1971 wrote:
Get Real! wrote:It looks like he's seeking advice from Rasputin.

Get back in the cage with the Goblin (Bill C is hungry).

Putin is seen to be corrupt that he and GD are likely very well suited to each other.

by **Oceanside50** » Sun Nov 17, 2013 1:37 am

mother russia??? russians don't give two hoots about you Yialousa…they won't even acknowledge that Greeks and Constantinople are the keepers of Orthodoxy, thats why they created another Patriarchy in Moscow….quit wasting your time buddy

by **Archimedes** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:58 pm

Putin promises crackdown on $111bln offshore money leak

Published time: December 12, 2013 11:28
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An estimated $111 billion of Russian money, or 20 percent of the country’s exports, is 'lost' offshore, President Putin said. To make Russian companies more transparent, he proposes stricter penalties for firms that avoid paying domestic taxes.

Addressing officials in a state of the nation address in Moscow, Putin balked at the capital flight and said losses incurred have directly damaged the state budget, and that forces behind Russia's economic slowdown are internal, not external.

Half of Russian companies' foreign investments each year leave Russia, Putin explained in front of Assembly members at the Kremlin hall on Thursday.

Rosneft’s March acquisition of TNK-BP for $55 billion made it the world’s largest listed crude oil producer, but Russia lost out because it took place outside Russian jurisdiction. Another $25 billion was lost to offshores as well.

"These numbers stand for the drain of capital that should be working in Russia and direct losses for the national budget," the President said.

To keep tax money in Russia, Putin proposed companies that wish to register offshore will still be subject to Russian state taxes, and won’t receive any government funding. They also will be barred from participation in bidding at state auctions, like that of Rosneft.

“If you want to go offshore, be my guest, but the money stays here,” Putin said.

Putin’s message on the dangers of an offshore economy echo his comments from last year's address, but he hasn’t seen any tangible results.

“Frankly speaking, the results (of fighting money leaking offshore) are hardly noticeable,” the President said. Company directors that try to conceal or distort the status of their company, in the future could be criminally liable, won’t receive any government funding, but will still need to pay Russian taxes.

Russians invested $70 billion during the first quarter of 2013 into their offshore jurisdictions, according to the data from the Central Bank of Russia.

Companies that want to register in foreign countries will no longer receive perks from the Kremlin- no access to government funds, including loans from the state bank Vnesheconombank, and state agency contracts will be forfeited.

Russia’s economic growth is unlikely to exceed 1.5 percent in 2013, and with a slump in oil prices expected, collecting companies’ tax contributions is vital in funding the budget.

In the first 11 months of 2013, the Russian federal budget has a surplus of $17.1 billion, or about 1 percent of GDP, according to Finance Ministry released today. Between January and November, revenue totaled $358 billion, 91.1 percent of the total budget revenue for 2013.

In May 2013, it became illegal for Russian government officials and their families to own foreign assets abroad. Real-estate and bank accounts were ordered to be sold, and assets were ordered back to Russia.

Creating an internal domestic offshore tax zone, likely in Russia’s Far East, had been under serious consideration among finance ministers, but was later shelved.

Developing economies are especially susceptible to capital flight, as tax-dodgers, corrupt officials, and criminals stash their wealth abroad.

http://rt.com/business/offshore-tax-budget-russia-119/

by **Paphitis** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:37 pm

Oceanside50 wrote:mother russia??? russians don't give two hoots about you Yialousa…they won't even acknowledge that Greeks and Constantinople are the keepers of Orthodoxy, thats why they created another Patriarchy in Moscow….quit wasting your time buddy

I am still waiting for the russian response to the Turkish Invasion

Russia must be too far away, because they are still not here yet! :lol:

Maybe they are following Greece's lead! :roll:

by **Archimedes** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:23 am

Suicide bomber kills 16 in Russia's Volgograd

Published time: December 29, 2013 09:08
http://rt.com/news/volgograd-blast-victims-russia-937/

Russian firefighters and security personnel inspect the damage at a train station following a suicide attack in the Volga River city of Volgograd, about 900 kms (560 miles) southeast of Moscow, on December 29, 2013 (AFP Photo / Stringer)
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At least 16 people were killed in a blast at a railway station in the city of Volgograd, southern Russia. A suicide bomber is suspected to have carried out the attack, says the National Anti-terrorism Committee.

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“According to verified information, the explosion at the railway station in Volgograd has claimed 16 lives," Russia's Investigative Committee said.

Another 37 were injured, 8 of them more critically, including a girl of 9. The child has been taken to a local hospital.

At the same time, the Health Ministry confirms that 45 people have been taken to hospital.

The incident is being treated as an act of terrorism, the committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said.

The blast took place at 12.45 local time inside the building of the railway. It is "thought to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber," according to the anti-terrorism committee's statement.

“At 12.45 we got informed that a boom or a blast was heard in the building of the railway station, Volgograd-1. Smoke was reported,” Svetlana Smolyaninova, a police spokesperson said, according to RIA Novosti.

The power of the explosion at Volgograd’s station was equivalent to at least 10 kg TNT, according to Markin. The explosive device was stuffed with pieces of scrap metal. The Committee said that an undetonated F-1 grenade was also found at the scene.

Interfax’s source said that “the blast happened near the metal detectors located at the entrance to the station.”
Suicide bomber's identity disputed

The Committee originally said a female suicide bomber detonated the bomb when she saw a police officer while approaching the metal detector.

But since then the suicide bomber’s identity has been disputed. The female was initially identified as Oksana Aslanova, a close friend of Naida Asiyalova - also known as ‘Amaturahman’ - who was behind the October Volgograd attack. Aslanova is said to have been married twice to two militants, both eliminated earlier.

A few hours later, more evidence emerged suggesting that a man could have also been involved in the attack. The version, which was also picked up by investigators, came after a male finger with a pin from a grenade was found at the scene.

Given the new information, the possibility that the attack could have been carried out by both a man and a woman is not ruled out, Markin said.
'Blast was so strong, we thought it was a crash'

One witness told the news agency that he saw "two bodies lying in front of the entrance, pieces of shattered glass are everywhere, there's a ton of rubble there." He added that "apparently, the explosion led to a fire, which the firefighters quickly put out."

Another witness told RT that the windows on both levels of the station have been shattered and that "the police have cordoned off the area, nobody's allowed on the premises. There's a very heavy police presence, emergency ministry officials, bomb squads... it's understandable that people are afraid, but there aren't any screams or panicking."

According to one of the accounts shared on a social network, people around the station thought a plane might have crashed because of the thick fog.

“The blast was really strong so my mother and everybody around thought there was a plane crash,” a woman said after she reached her mother on the phone. “Somebody shouted: there is an explosion inside the railway station. My mother said there was a lot of smoke.”

President Vladimir Putin has ordered that all the necessary measures be taken to assist survivors and provide security in Volgograd, the Kremlin reported.

Volgograd is a city of around 1 million people, about 690 km northeast of Sochi and close to Russia's volatile region of North Caucasus. The city saw a terrorist attack just in October, when a suicide bomber blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and injuring more than 30 others.

On Friday, a car bomb killed three people, all passerbys, in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk as a homemade explosive device went off outside the Road Traffic Safety Department. Funerals are scheduled for December 30.