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Sergey A. Ryabkov
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.jpg) I would hope that the coming of the new
President and the
new team will be marked by drawing a line
after a period of difficulties in our relations, especially
in recent times.
Still, I have no particular expectations that this will happen without considerable efforts on both sides.
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“All citizens must have equal rights”
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.jpg) The Investigation Committee of the Prosecutor’s Office is in charge of over 70% of corruption cases that the law-enforcement agencies discover for the simple reason that it has the authority to commence criminal proceedings against public officials.
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“Our expectations were exceeded”
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.jpg) From October 21 to October 25, 2008, a business and cultural delegation from Oklahoma City headed by Mayor Mick Cornett visited Ulyanovsk. Members of the delegation held meetings and conducted discussions with Ulyanovsk officials, the executives of area companies, as well as cultural and community leaders.
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Moscow is ready for dialogue
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.jpg) Will our two leaders Dmitriy Medvedev and Barack Obama be able to establish a constructive dialogue between the countries and generate new forces to move bilateral relations forward? Questions like this one now worry not only scholars, analysts, and politicians, but also members of the business community.
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Developments in the RFE Railway
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.jpg) The rail system represents the lifelines for the RFE southern territories, and especially, Primorsky and Khabarovsky krais, Amurskaya oblast, Jewish autonomous okrug, Sakhalin island, and Southern Sakha (Yakutia). RFE railroads carry about 83% of the region’s freight.
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Oil & gas industry
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.jpg) The Russian oil and gas industry is a strategic sector of the Russian economy and accounts for 61% of Russian exports. The industry has demonstrated strong performance in the last several months and is concentrated on about a dozen development projects.
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The Russian defense industry
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.jpg) All this growth in the defense sector has become a reality thanks to a complex set of factors. First, the incoming money from Russia’s energy exports enabled the D&A industry to materialize several of its (very often Soviet-era) stagnated projects.
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Russia and the global economic crisis
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.jpg) Russia is confronting virtually all the negatives at once - sharply declining export earnings from energy and metals, over-leveraged corporate balance sheets and a chorus of bailout appeals, a credit crunch and banking failures. The government has burned through more than 20 percent of its foreign-exchange reserves since August.
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| In the news |
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“GAZPOM” to strengthen stock market positions
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.jpg) Next year Russia’s “GAZPOM” concern will strengthen its positions on the world stock markets, and its shares will rise in price. This forecast was made by Europe’s largest bank UBS. This year “GAZPROM” bonds, as well as the bonds of the other big companies, have suffered as a result of the financial crisis.
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Russia calls for unbiased court ruling
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.jpg) The Chief of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin hopes the international courts will bring a fair judgment on Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia. At a press conference in Moscow, he presented evidence showing that Georgia used prohibited means of warfare.
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Russia’s grain harvest is 108 million tons
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.jpg) Russia’s grain harvest is 108 million tons, its second best result in history. The figure in 2007 was 82 million, and the harvest in 2009 is likely to top 112 million tons. The numbers are from the Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev. He also spoke about plans for over 3 billion dollars in extra investment in the farming sector.
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Russians name biggest events of 2008
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.jpg) Analysts were not surprised to hear that the presidential elections and the formation of a new cabinet of ministers were seen as the biggest events of the past year. The people of any nation tend to focus on domestic developments. “Self comes first,” said the Survey Center’s communications director.
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Nicaraguan Canal: a revolution for shipping
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.jpg) Nicaraguan Canal could be revolutionary for shipping. Russian experts and political scientists express this idea in view of the possible involvement of Russia in its construction. The canal is expected to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and would follow rivers up to Lake Nicaragua and then cut across the isthmus of Rivas to reach the Pacific.
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First Russian sports car: Marussia
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.jpg) Russia has unveiled to the public its first innovative sports car Marussia. Based on the Formula 1 (F1) technologies, Marussia, like a cell phone, has three replaceable bodies - it is a kind of transformer car. But unlike other race cars, Marussia is certified for use on conventional roads.
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Economic results of the past year
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.jpg) The Russian economy has come to feel the negative impact of the global financial crisis. Take, for example, the plummeting prices for Russian exports and the difficulties with financial market operations. Nevertheless, some of the basic macroeconomic indexes are expected to grow. Industrial production is likely to grow 2 points.
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Dmitry Medvedev sees closer cooperation with the C.I.S.
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.jpg) President Dmitry Medvedev sees closer cooperation with C.I.S. countries as a shortcut to ending the global liquidity crunch. “The crisis will not last forever, and we must be ready to launch new cooperation projects with our neighbors,” he said during a joint session of the State and Security Councils.
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Mass transit modernization
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.jpg) “If the national mass transit system places orders for new rolling stock with home-based plants, leading business companies of Russia will be kept busy for years. The economic crisis leaves no room for the importation of foreign-made vehicles,” said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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Take your FOREX experience to a new level
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.jpg) Deciding which clearing firm or Forex dealer to trade with is an extremely important decision. The vast majority of FX dealers or Futures Commission Merchants (FCM) will profit on their client’s losing trades. This practice is called market making. Forex market daily volume exceeds USD 4 trillion, twenty-five times the combined volume of NYSE and Nasdaq.
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| Jewelry partnerships |
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The secret weapon of Kabirski
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.jpg) German Kabirski is one of the youngest, yet one of the most enigmatic Russian jewelry brands. People in the industry started talking about Kabirski for the first time at the turn of the millennium, in the year 2000, when the previously-unknown designer took first place at Moscow’s international jewelry show.
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See the Land of the Czars with Go to Russia
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.jpg) The company was started 10 years ago with one person ordering visas for its first clients from his home office. Today, Go To Russia is a respectable company with offices in Atlanta, San-Francisco, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev. The company's Atlanta Sheremetyevo Hotel opened last summer and since then has become extremely popular.
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Space militarism or cooperation
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.jpg) It appears that the recent cooling of U.S-Russia relationships has brought worry to some that come 2010 when the Space Shuttle fleet is forced into retirement, the U.S. will be completely reliant upon Russia for all manned spaceflight and ISS resupplying missions. The U.S. and Russia have had a long history of cooperation.
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Alexander Bolonkin
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.jpg) Born in 1933, Alexander Bolonkin has a doctorate in technical sciences. He specializes in the fields of aviation, cosmonautics, mathematics, and computer science.He worked together with Sergei Korolev. In 1972, he was arrested by the KGB for distributing the works of Andrei Sakharov
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Moscow welcomes Miss World with snow champagne
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.jpg) Fluffy snow and biting frost were what the 21-year-old beauty from Siberia missed the most as she fought for the Miss World title in the hot South African sun in Johannesburg. Ksenya passed all rounds of the competition with flying honors. “I’m proud for myself and Russia,” she said.
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Latest news
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source: RIA novosti
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