In Astana, August 27 an agreement between the Government of Kazakhstan and the IAEA on the establishment of the international bank of low enriched uranium (LEU) in the republic is signed in Astana, August 27. The bank will be formed in the territory and with the use of technical base of the Ulba Metallurgical Plant (UMP) in Ust-Kamenogorsk. The signing ceremony was attended by representatives of...

Growth in bank lending to companies and individuals in the euro zone accelerated in July 2015 compared with the previous month, according to the European Central Bank (ECB). Thus, the policy of quantitative easing (QE), implemented by the ECB, is bearing fruit. The total volume of bank lending in the past month increased by 0.9% compared with July 2014, after increasing by 0.2% a month earlier....

China and India play a major role in ensuring the growth of the Asian population and identify trends in the process of urbanization. According to the research institute McKinsey in 2010, it is expected that the two countries will provide 62% of the continent's urban population growth between 2005 and 2025, and an impressive 40% of the growth in the world. Statistics point to the urgency of the...

The political crisis in Brazil does not have a negative impact on relations with Washington, as well as the causes of delays in the bilateral cooperation. This is the official discourse of both countries, which emphasize the resumption of relations, turned over from the fresh leaf, formalized by Dilma Rousseff’s visit to the US in June, after the crisis caused by the scandal with the surveillance...

The Chinese people wonder why there is “so many black people” in France, Sweden “imports waste”, “milk-induced longevity” in Bulgaria, and Poland “hates China”. Foreign Policy examined the most popular searches in the main Chinese search engine Baidu to find out what they the citizens of the PRC think about rest of the world. Like other search engines, Baidu has an auto-complete feature, that is,...

In recent years, the two partners - Berlin and Ankara - collected many claims to each other. Dissatisfaction of Germany, which is home to more than three million Turks, is arisen by reluctance of many immigrants to integrate into German society. The Bundestag is convinced that this is fault of the president Erdogan and his entourage, who has repeatedly called German Turks to preserve their native...

A teenager from Iowa Brady Olson has registered as a candidate for the US presidency. He described himself as ‘Deez Nuts’ filling out an application on the site of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), reports New York Post. - The next step will be to find a party that would support my candidacy, such as the Minnesota Independence Party or ‘Modern Whigs’ - said the 15-year-old Olson. - Still it...

Switzerland is famous not only for banks and chocolate, but also for its favorable framework conditions for doing business, being attractive to both domestic and foreign business people. More precisely - famous so far because the strong Swiss franc and the migratory restrictions, entering into force soon, may cause serious damage to the Confederacy, fobbing off perspective foreign investors. The...

Former chief editor of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo Pedro Ramirez spoke about his new information publication El Espanol, which will be launched in the coming weeks, in an interview with the Financial Times. According to its creator, which is known for high-profile investigative journalist, El Espanol will fight the "corrupt oligarchy that undermine Spanish democracy". The official launch of...