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After the
Reset: from words to action
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.jpg) On April 1, the President of the United States Barack Obama and the President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev met for the first time. Obama and Medvedev, who both hold law degrees, represent a new generation of leaders, formed after the end of the Cold War. This new generation is capable of giving a fresh impulse to bilateral relations, which were in high tension during the past several months.
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Corruption: an elemental hazard
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.jpg) The head of the Economic Safety Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Lieutenant General of the Russian Militia Yuri Shalakov talks about the effects of the financial crisis on economic crimes committed in the country.
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How Moscow sees U.S. missile defenses in Poland
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.jpg) Russia has its own deployed missile defense shield. This is its nuclear defense. A nuclear warhead, a megaton-quality capable of exposing a couple of kilometers of targets, can disable incoming nuclear warheads. The Russian military believes that such a missile defense is more or less possible
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| Market analysis |
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Russian economic report
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The impact of the crisis worldwide is proving far deeper and broader than previously thought.The impact on Russia has been accentuated by its structural vulnerabilities: dependence on the oil and gas sector, a narrow industrial base, and limited small and medium-size enterprise sector.
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Russia: coal and mining industry
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.jpg) The recent revival of the Russian economy, high oil prices, rising energy use by neighboring countries such as China, the low cost of producing most minerals and an advantageous geographical position to export to both Europe and Asia, have facilitated the rapid growth of the Russian coal and mining industry.
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Russian market for wireless network solutions
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.jpg) The Russian wireless network (WiMAX) market, which started at the end of 2007, will continue to experience significant growth in the next few years, thus creating sizable opportunities for U.S. manufacturers of telecom equipment and for software developers.
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Russia: pleasure boat market
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.jpg) According to industry sources, the average annual market growth for the entire pleasure boats sector is estimated at 30%. This impressive growth has led to many foreign entrants and has led to a high-level of competition among manufacturers and distributors.
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Hotel development: Vladivostok
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.jpg) Vladivostok is Russia’s largest port on the Pacific Ocean and home to the Russian Pacific Fleet. With a population of 605 400, and total territory of 561 500 sq. meters, it is one of the largest cities in the Russian Far East. It is the administrative center for the Primorsky territory.
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| In the news |
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Social spending and innovation will beat the crisis
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.jpg) Russian lawmakers believe innovation, support of small business activity, tight supervision of finances and expenditures can successfully steer the country through the troubled global economic waters these days. Such statements were made to the media after the Duma members heard a performance report delivered by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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SuperJet - 100 to break into world markets
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.jpg) Two Sukhoi SuperJet-100 medium-haul airliners have landed at Zhukovsky airport outside of Moscow for subsequent test flights there. Earlier, the planes took off the Far East-based Komsomolsk-on-Amur airport, covering thousands of kilometers to take part in certification test flights in the Moscow region.
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Russia big contributor to London G-20
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.jpg) The London summit of the G-20 approved proposals for a 5-trillion-dollar global stimulus turnout before 2011. One trillion dollars will go to boost the lending power of the IMF. The Fund will also raise emergency rescue cash by selling 50 billion dollars worth of gold from its reserves.
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Russian government aims to keep inflation at bay
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.jpg) Under the renewed anti-crisis program for 2009, the Russian government aims to keep inflation at the rate of 13.3% like it was in 2008. In 2010 and in 2011 inflation growth may slow down by 10 and 11 percent respectively. Russia’s Central Bank is expected to play a crucial role.
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Customs union with Belarus, Kazakhstan
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.jpg) Vladimir Putin told the Russian parliament that the agreed-upon customs union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan can be launched in 2010, which is a year earlier than planned. The union should boost development through unimpeded trade with a common border.
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| Partnership search |
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Remember this name: German Kabirski
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.jpg) Do you know the most intriguing and hot Russian jewelry brands? German Kabirski. Remember this name. He also represents one of the youngest Russian jewelry brands. People in the industry started to talk about Kabirski for the first time in the year 2000.
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OIL Traders International
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.jpg) OIL Traders International, LLC. is able to facilitate the purchase of practically any quantity of Russian oil and petroleum products. All of the company’s clients in the United States are end consumers of fuel. OIL Traders International, LLC. is ready to purchase from major Russian energy producers oil and petroleum products in very large volumes.
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| Sochi 2014 |
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Sochi committee calls general partnership tender
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.jpg) The steering committee of the Sochi Olympic games is looking for a general partner that will be in charge of the transportation of athletes, guests, and other participants at the winter Olympics of 2014. It will hold its new partnership tender entirely on its own, which seems unusual.
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Russian Olympic facilities at MIPIM-2009
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.jpg) Russia will invest a total of 20 billion dollars in Olympic facilities to be built in Sochi in the next five years for the 2014 Winter Games. The organizers are sure the amount will be raised despite the world economic crisis, since the Olympic project is more than necessary.
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Rosneft to sponsor Olympic games 2014
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.jpg) Russia’s Rosneft oil giant will pay more than USD 160 million to be a sponsor of the 2104 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In exchange for discount supplies of fuel and lubricants for the games, the company will enjoy easier access to land in the southern Krasnodar region where it plans to build a network of gasoline and car service stations.
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Putin: “Preparations are intensive enough”
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.jpg) Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that preparations for the Sochi Olympics-2014 are going at full steam. Speaking at the session of the Presidium of the Council for Sport under the President of Russia, Putin said that both the Sochi journalists and the representatives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had acknowledged this.
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Resurs-dk satellite for Sochi Olympics
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.jpg) Experts at the Russian center for on-line earth monitoring can draw maps of natural resources and control their rational use, forecast violent weather events, as well as estimate the scale of natural disasters.
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International Olympic Committee: Russia can do it
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.jpg) Russia is capable of holding extraordinary 2014 Winter Olympics, so there is every hope that the world will remember that Olympiad for a long time. This is the impression of the head of the International Olympic Committee’s coordination commission for the 2014 Sochi Olympics Jean-Claude Killy.
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Price tags become cheaper
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.jpg) Government spending on preparing the venues for the 2014 Olympic games in Sochi has dropped by as much as 300 billion roubles, or almost 9 million dollars, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said.
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| Presenting regions |
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Russia’s Northwest
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.jpg) Northwest Russia, with a population of roughly 14.3 million people, has attracted a high percentage of total direct foreign investment in Russia, and has distinguished itself by the progressive outlook of many of its political and business leaders. U.S. companies have been active investors in the Northwest.
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Post-secondary education in the Russian Far East
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.jpg) The Russian economy has grown steadily over the last six years, illustrated by a 7% average annual GDP growth rate. The country needs a well-educated population to contribute to its success and global competitiveness. The Russian Far East, the easternmost area of the country, is rich in natural resources.
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| Features |
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Lend-lease: the peak of U.S.-Russia relations
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.jpg) Carl Watt is an American residing in Russia. A graduate of Leningrad State University, he’s been in Russia for a total of ten years now. During the past few years Mr. Watt has been working with the “Allies and Lend-Lease Museum” in Moscow.
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Alexander the Great of Russian basketball
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.jpg) Dubbed ‘Alexander the Great’, Gomelsky was known by the international sports community as one of the most shrewd basketball minds. Under his watchful eye the Russian national team won seven European and two world championships.
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Break-up of the Soviet Union
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.jpg) The ground-breaking decision adopted at the 3rd Congress to abolish article 6 of the Constitution, which proclaimed the CPSU the “leading and guiding force of Soviet society, the nucleus of its political system” set in motion the forces that led up to the disintegration of the CPSU, the Soviet state and society.
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Latest news
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source: RIA novosti
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