ST. PETERSBURG FIRST RECEIVED ITS CREDIT RATING.

The Dominican Republic's credit rating has been increased by Standard & Poor's as the govt. narrows its budget deficit and reduces debt, reports Bloomberg (Sept. 5, 2007). The long-term debt rating was increased to B+ from B, putting it four levels below investment grade and in line with Argentina's ......

Ardagh Glass, the Guernsey-based glassmaker that owns Rockware in the UK, Heye Glas and HEYE International in Germany and Abruzzo Vetro in Italy, has had its credit rating revised from stable to negative by the ratings group Standard & Poor's. This follows Ardagh's issuing of additional debt in the form ......

TEMPLE-INLAND GETS IMPROVED S & P RATING. Standard & Poor's Rating Services (S & P), New York, New York, USA raised its short-term ratings on Temple-Inland Inc. to 'A-2' from 'A-3'. At the same time, S & P affirmed its long-term ratings on the company, including the 'BBB' corporate credit ......

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said July 28 that it lowered its long-term ratings and outlook on Jamaica S&P lowered its long-term local currency sovereign credit rating on Jamaica to "B+" from "BB-"; its long-term foreign currency rating to "B" from "B+"; and revised its outlook on the ratings to ......

A City of Many Contrasts Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia By W. Bruce Lincoln Basic Books. 419 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio Liberty" ON A rainy evening in October 1986, I arrived in Leningrad ......

HEADNOTE INTRA offers unigue tour between Russia's Moscow and St. Petersburg There is perhaps no more interesting time than the present to visit Russia as this complex nation awakens after decade's of communist slumber. Moscow and St. Petersburg, now bursting with enterprise under the freedoms of a new market driven ......

Standard & Poor's raised its credit rating for Suriname one notch to 'B+' from 'B', citing improved macroeconomic fundamentals and efforts on the legislative and institutional fronts to preserve these gains, reports Reuters (Nov. 19, 2007): "The positive trends on the economic side are paralleled by government efforts to sustain ......