Yuriy Sidorenko serves as the Chairman of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation. A Distinguished Jurist of Russia, Mr. Sidorenko has been a member of Russia's Supreme Court since 1993. Justice Sidorenko worked in the Russian federal judiciary for 27 years.

I recently got a call from one of my university classmates that I haven’t talked to for many years. I vaguely recalled that Andrei was still living and working in Yekaterinburg. I also remembered that he used to be a member of the famous Urals State University choir.

Недавно я была в гостях у одного миллиардера. Не миллионера, а именно миллиардера. «Владелец заводов, газет, пароходов»… - в самый раз про Тома. Нефтяные бизнесы, заводы, баскетбольная команда, телеканалы…

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, New York and Tokyo. Our editor talks to the head of the Department for External Economic Affairs of the City of Moscow Georgiy Muradov.

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.

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.

The 13th St. Petersburg Economic Forum lasted three days from June 4 to 6. After President Putin in 2007 recommended to Russian state officials not to go to a similar type of event in London, the St. Petersburg Forum became considered the largest business gathering in Russia.

Dmitry Medvedev hailed the continuously strengthening cooperation between Russia and the United States when meeting with the visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outside Moscow on October 13, 2009. Secretary Clinton said at the Moscow meeting that the United States is looking forward to expanding its strategic ties with Russia.

The volume of trade between Russia and the United States in 2009 has decreased significantly as a result of the world-wide economic crisis and the consequences it held in store for both countries. According to the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2009, the volume of trade was only USD 21.7 billion, compared to the figure of USD 36.11 billion for 2008.

“My confidence is founded on the high degree of interest that companies from Silicon Valley have demonstrated in relation to the Russian project. I should say that Skolkovo was able to attract not only American companies. A number of high-tech companies from other countries also joined the project.”

On March 9, 2011, the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev met with the American Vice President Joseph Biden in Moscow. The Russian head of state said that Russia was ready to create a strategic relationship with the United States. Russian government officials are hopeful that the United States would help Russia join the World Trade Organization in 2011. President Medvedev also asked the American Vice President to work with Congress to graduate Russia from Jackson-Vanik.