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The US Federal Reserve has announced a 0.75% interest rate hike, the largest increase in 28 years, as the central bank’s chairman stressed the need to avoid a recession and tame runaway price inflation.  The Fed’s Open Market Committee announced the decision on Wednesday, saying it would raise short-term rates …

2021 was Chicago’s deadliest year in 25 years, according to new statistics. Nearly 800 homicides and over 3,500 shootings took place in the city last year as the authorities struggle to rein in violent crime. Chicago recorded 797 homicides in 2021 – the most in the city since 1996. According …

In April 2014, President Vladimir Putin addressed Russia’s Federal Assembly in the wake of Moscow’s reabsorption of Crimea. Over the course of his speech, he laid the blame for an increase in tensions on the West, which he insisted had “lied to us many times, made decisions behind our backs, placed …

In the aftermath of the catastrophe on Capitol Hill, an opinion piece in the New York Times took the seemingly curious step of comparing the situation in the United States to post-Soviet Russia. The author noted that the parallels between those who had attempted to ransack Congress and those who …

Real profitability of Bank deposits may soon not compensate losses from inflation, warned the Deputy Chairman of VTB. The consequence would be a repetition of the situation when the Russians did not consider the contributions seriously The Russians may be disappointed in deposits as forms of saving money, the situation …

Citizens of Russia can lose in real disposable income more than in the record year of 1999, has assumed in conversation with URA.RU a former teacher of the higher school of Economics (HSE) Urfu Konstantin Yurchenko. The expert explained that the fact that the crisis is still not exhausted, and …

Participants in the development of the Declaration on state sovereignty of the RSFSR, Constitution of the Russian Federation, deputies of convocation 1990-1993, public figures, and members of the constitutional club opposed the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The statement of the participants of the conference “30 years …

According to conservative projections, losing their jobs can more than 10 million Russians, mostly residents of the capital and cities, experts say. Can the state cope with the influx of unemployed, which the country has not seen since the 1990-ies, experts argue. Senior researcher of the Laboratory studies of pension …

<< < 1 2 3 4 … 11 > >> Oh, those “wild nineties”, or Golden age, or hellishly hard times, but rather both. Some TRU-fans can say that in the nineties real metal almost died, and for others it is one of the periods of prosperity in the genre. …

Caution! This material is able to induce uncontrollable fits of nostalgia for the “dashing nineties”. Don’t know how anyone, but during my childhood VCR was a thing not every family could afford. In the early 1990s in my class could be on the fingers of one hand to count the …