Dubai / Emirates Business As the automotive aftermarket in the Middle East and Africa posts impressive growth rates, international auto aftermarket players are keen to be a part of this growth by increasing their footprint across the region. This can be gauged by the influx of international manufacturers and suppliers of aftermarket products and equipment to Automechanika Dubai 2016 – ...

Bloomberg The Kremlin is putting “unprecedented” pressure on opposition activists as President Vladimir Putin prepares for his toughest electoral test amid Russia’s longest recession in two decades, according to his former prime minister. “The authorities understand that 2016 will be decisive because the economic and political situation is acute,” Mikhail Kasyanov, who was premier from 2000 to 2004 and is ...

Moscow / AFP Armed men attacked the office of a prominent human rights organisation in the volatile Russian region of Ingushetia, the group said on Thursday, hours after an assault on journalists in the same area sparked international outrage. Footage of the attack posted on Twitter by Dmitry Utukin, a lawyer for the Committee to Prevent Torture, appeared to show ...