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Vladimir Putin presses ahead with plans for integrated currency market in CIS
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has taken plans to create an integrated currency market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) one step closer to reality. On Friday – August 28, 2015, the Russian president submitted the relevant draft law, named “On Ratification of the Agreement on Cooperation in Organising an Integrated Currency Market in the Commonwealth of Independent States” to the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament. The bill aims to put into action parts of the Plan for Implementing CIS Joint Measures to Overcome the Consequences of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis ... (full story)