http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT en-us http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT N/A office@russianamericanbusiness.org Fri, 18 May 2012 15:40:04 EDT 20 http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/988/1/Russia-joins-WTO <IMG border=1 hspace=8 align=right src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(71).jpg"> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Russia officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), as a protocol for the country’s accession was signed late on December 16. The protocol was inked by Russia’s Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina and the WTO’s Director General Pascal Lamy. At a conference on December 16, the organization’s members approved a package of documents that cleared the way for Russia’s membership.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/987/1/%93Russia%2C-U.S.-need-major-dialog-on-investment-issues%94 <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(70).jpg"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin">Russia and the United States need major dialog on investment issues. The U.S. Secretary of State’s Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, Ambassador Richard Morningstar, gave an interview to Interfax, in which he talked about cooperation between Russia and the United States in the fuel and energy sector.</SPAN> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/986/1/Russia%2C-NATO-must-agree-on-indivisible-security <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(69).jpg"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>“We have been developing the interaction with the North Atlantic Alliance despite the remaining difficulties,” said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov when summing up the results of the outgoing foreign political year.</SPAN> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/985/1/Russian-elites-are-looking-for-a-way-out-of-crisis <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(68).jpg"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin">The opposition’s rally for fair elections, held in Moscow’s Andrei Sakharov Avenue on December 24, 2011, was not only the largest protest action by the opposition over the past 20 years, but also the most politicized one. </SPAN> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/984/1/Russian-energy-companies-ready-to-resume-operation-in-Libya <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(67).jpg"> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Russian energy companies are ready to resume operation in Libya, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told the Rossiya 24 TV network. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/983/1/Russia-hopes-to-create-Eurasian-Economic-Union-by-2015 <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(66).jpg"> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Russia plans to intensify economic integration in the post-Soviet space and expects the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with Belarus and Kazakhstan to come into existence by 2015, President Dmitry Medvedev said in December. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/982/1/Russia-writes-off-%2411bn-worth-of-Afghanistan%92s-debt <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(65).jpg"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin">“We provide assistance to establishing Afghanistan’s army and police by providing free arms and ammunition, training Afghan personnel at Russian universities and training centers, supplying helicopters, and offering participation in the NATO-Russia Council’s helicopter project,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.</SPAN> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/981/1/Economy-will-never-grow-more-than-5%25-%96-Ulyukayev <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(64).jpg"> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev has said he thinks the world’s economy will never again see annual growth of more than 5%.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/980/1/World-Bank-approves-new-strategy-of-work-in-Russia <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(63).jpg"> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The World Bank’s projects in Russia range in sectors and geography from strengthening of the banking and the financial systems to swine breeding, from the support of local socio-economic initiatives in Dagestan to improving preschool education in Yakutia. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/articles/979/1/Post-election-protests-will-not-affect-Russia%92s-investment-attractiveness <IMG border=1 hspace=6 align=left src="http://russianamericanbusiness.org/web_CURRENT/content_images/2011.12.01---Image-Front---i-(62).jpg"> <P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Public protests over presumed parliamentary election fraud will not affect Russia’s investment attractiveness. “It is too early to say whether the fluctuations of our stock indices were caused by the election or by jitters around the Euro Zone,” said Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> News Service Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST