Around five years ago I was interviewing one of the leaders of a business delegation from Russia at a Las Vegas tradeshow. I asked him whether any American businesspeople with Russian roots stopped by the booths of the Russian companies attending the fair and inquired about the opportunities for doing business.

In 2008, the annual budget of the city of Moscow, as executed, will stand at 50 to 55 billion dollars. There are only two cities in the world that have such budgets. Our editor talks to the head of the Department for External Economic Affairs of Moscow Georgiy Muradov.

Russia is prepared to offer foreign investors participation in profitable economic projects. This is what the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Businessmen Alexander Shokhin said during an international investment conference held in London. He spoke on the strategy of the development of Russian business.

Russian street scenes, paintings of the American West, colorful abstracts, and emotive portraits are all part of an international exhibition exploring early 20th-century Russian immigrant art debuting in October at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

The small Oklahoma town of Hartshorne, some 15 miles away from the city of Macalister is still sometimes referred to as the Russian town. There, on top of a hill that the locals continue to call Russian stands the main historic sight of the area, an Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and Methodius.