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It is not unusual today that people have the opportunity of ordering a bouquet of flowers for the anniversary of a business partner or friend through the Internet. There is no problem with that even if your associates and loved-ones reside halfway across the world.

Republican production and trade enterprise Orsha Linen Mill is a company of rich traditions and an interesting history. It is one of the biggest textile manufacturers in Europe, making a wide range of linen products. The company offers linen and semi-linen fabrics.

Tom Cole represents Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cole, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), is the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House. He also serves on the Armed Services Committee.

Consul General of the Russian Federation in Houston, Texas Nikolai Sofinskiy believes that the partnership between the U.S. and Russia will be critical for the two countries’ economic development in the future and has high hopes for bilateral cooperation.

"We are going to discuss the positive achievements in Russian-American relations, which are not fewer than the number of questions on which we disagree. There is something to talk about in terms of the development of positive trends in the relationship."

Zlatoust Arms Company’s participation in the Shot show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in February was very successful. The Shot show is the largest shooting, hunting, and outdoor industry trade exhibit in the United States. The most exciting news for ZOK is that the company now has an official representative in the U.S.

“Look! There’s a real mammoth! And a cave bear! I didn’t expect to meet these fellows at a jewelry and gem show. Unbelievable! Can I take a picture with my new friends?” - a world-known mineralogist was happy like a child when the permission was granted.

Herndon, VA - U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) Director Sergey Kiriyenko signed a long-term suspension agreement governing trade in nuclear fuel. The agreement will encourage bilateral trade in Russian uranium products for peaceful purposes.

The Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been working in the U.S. for three years, assisting Russian and American companies looking to expand trade with each other. The Russian economy is experiencing an immense boom.

Tashkent - Russia’s LUKOIL officially started up output from a major gas field in Uzbekistan in a project expected to contribute one fifth of the Central Asian state’s gas output. Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov and top Uzbek and LUKOIL officials toured the Khauzak deposit.

Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich is a living legend. He has been named two times the Hero of the Soviet Union. Many Russians made him an idol 40 years ago at the start of the space era, when he made his first flight around the Earth. “Flying to outer space,” Pavel Popovich says, “is just like falling in love for the first time.

Managing director of the World Bank Group Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala just returned from St. Petersburg, Russia, where she attended the International Economic Forum on behalf of the bank’s president Robert Zoellick. The XII International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg has become the most significant venue for the economic dialogue between Russia and the world.

Extraterrestrial, a film of a Russian-Ukrainian company Star Media received one of the highest honors and a grand prix award at the 41st Worldfest Houston independent film festival. The festival’s director Hunter Todd said that the film received high jury assessment and generated great interest on the part of the audience.

Movie director Steven Spielberg received one of his first cinema awards at the Worldfest film festival in Houston, Texas. It happened in 1972. Members of the jury had never heard the young director’s name before and could judge him only on the merits of his work.

The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was USD 12.0 billion in 2007, a decrease of USD 3.1 billion from USD 15.1 billion in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were USD 7.4 billion, up 56.7 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Russia were USD 19.4 billion, down 2.4 percent.

I think of myself more as a designer than a jeweler… I can say that if you plan just to be a jeweler, you need to study the trade. If you want to become a designer, then in addition to your sense of imagination you need to have an independent vision of the most common things.

Russian Collection is a unique line of exquisite jewelry fully inspirited by the values of the cultural heritage of Russia! Take the chance to appreciate the true examples of the most fashionable Russian-style luxury jewelry! All jewelry pieces included in the collection are hand-made from 18ct gold (yellow and white color).

Marina J Feldman is a strikingly attractive woman resembling Marilyn Monroe in many respects. Marina’s beauty is natural, whole, and inviting. Her other connection with the movie industry is that among her clients are Barbara Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Nicole Kidman, and many other cinema stars.

Without the removal of excessive administrative barriers, without changing the tax policy, small and medium businesses would not only lack the potential for becoming the driving force of innovation, but also could not simply survive

Ulyanovsk region is a region with tremendous economic growth potential. The products produced by area companies are well-known and recognized world-wide. The AN-124 Ruslan Cargo aircraft and UAZ SUV vehicles have long become the symbols of Russian reliability and quality.

The region’s advantageous geographical position and well-developed transport infrastructure allow for the movement of freight in any direction by any mode of transportation.

The region is rich in natural resources, such as oil, quartz, cement raw materials, diatomite, and unique mineral water.

The region’s government and the governor personally exert every effort to ensure maximum comfort and ease, as well as successful business opportunities for foreign companies that will come to the region.

ECONOMY

Ulyanovsk region is part of the Volga River subdistrict of the Volga economic region. A well-developed transportation system and a favorable economic situation have an impact on regional economic development. The region is noted for production of aircrafts, cars, machine tools, automatic circuit reclosers, press-forging machines, electric crane motors, water sprinklers, and other machines. Other developed sectors include the flour-milling, meat, butter-making, starch and molasses, distilling, building material, and woodworking industries.

Small businesses involved in processing semifinished products and secondary raw materials from large industrial enterprises play an important role in supplying goods to the market. More than 1 000 small private companies form the basis of the region's small industry sector.

The oil industry is expanding at full speed. Increasing oil production and setting up oil refining facilities employing environmentally-clean technologies are the industry's priority lines of development.

The NAFTA-Ulyanovsk joint venture is carrying out two important investment projects, namely the "Development of eight oil fields in Ulyanovsk region" and the "Construction of the Ulyanovsk Oil Refinery (Ulyanovsky NPZ) with an annual output of 500 000 tons."

The region has a developed financial system consisting of banks and other financial institutions. Leading rating agencies rank Ulyanovsk region among the 20 Russian regions with the most favorable investment conditions.

The city of Ulyanovsk is the region's main industrial center, where large engineering plants and the light industries producing fabrics, knitted goods, and shoes are located. The second-largest industrial center is Melekes, which has a flax mill, a mechanical plant, a knitting mill, wood-finishing plants, and flour mills.

RESOURCES

Ulyanovsk region has an abundance of land, water, forest, and mineral resources. Sixty percent of the region's 3.7 million hectares of available land are designated as agricultural lands. About 80% of this land is tilled. The predominant soils are black earth (chernozems), which is very well suited for growing grain, feed, and industrial crops. Therefore, both crop cultivation and livestock farming (oriented towards meat and milk production) are well-developed here.

Forests cover 28% (946 200 hectares) of Ulyanovsk region. Deciduous forests, both hardwood and softwood, predominate (117 500 and 393 900 hectares, respectively); coniferous forests cover another 343 000 hectares. The main deciduous species is oak, which covers 16% of the forested area. Most of the forests are noncommercial. Companies in the forest, woodworking, and paper industries operate on both local and imported raw materials.

Ulyanovsk region extends on both sides of the great Volga River. There is no shortage of water resources. However, even though 22 subsurface freshwater reservoirs with probable reserves of 608 500 cubic meters per day have been explored, some districts are experiencing a shortage of drinking water. Therefore, construction of group water intakes is planned for the northern part of the region and the area along the Volga. The best known mineral water sources are the Undory, the Beloe Lake (Beloe Ozero), the Bely Yar, and the Banket. The Undory and the Banket pools are the most promising.

The region's beautiful historic sites, mineral waters, and natural beaches offer good prospects for the development of tourism and health resorts. The development of water resources, along with tourism and recreation, are envisioned in the region's Socioeconomic Development Strategy, which has the support of the regional administration.

Eighty-two oil fields have been discovered in Ulyanovsk region, 24 of which are in operation. Experts have estimated total oil reserves at more than 35 million tons. Oil production is increasing year by year.

Ulyanovsk region also has substantial reserves of other raw materials used in industry, such as various kinds of sands, cement materials, clays, and peat. One of the largest quartz sand deposits in the C.I.S., the Tashlinskoe deposit, is located in the region. High-quality glassmaking sand from the deposit is delivered to glass factories in various Russian regions. The Pukyanovskoe deposit is a well-known source of foundry sand. Raw cement materials are produced at the Kremenskoe deposit. The region is fully supplied with cement- and glassmaking materials, heat insulation products, filtered powder, chalk, construction lime, reinforced concrete products, lime-sand brick, and natural sorbents, and even supplies other regions with these resources. Ulyanovsk region has enough mineral resources to meet regional demands, and in the case of certain minerals, federal demands; however, marketing research is necessary in order to develop effective import-export relations in the region.

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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.

The principal activity of the Favorit-2003 limited liability company based in the city of Cherkasy, Ukraine, is providing commercial property for rent. The company owns a series of commercial buildings located on more than 41 acres of property. There are more than 675 merchant locations.

"When I was dealing in Soviet affairs, we only had a few areas of engagement, mostly having to do with issues related to military confrontation, strategic nuclear forces limitation talks. Now our relationship is much more characteristic of a modern relationship between two great powers in terms of economic integration."

German Kabirski is a designer who prefers to work in an extraordinary style. He really enjoys making his wonderful designs, rendering ordinary shapes into marvelous stylistic models. Sometimes his creations are referred to as risky avant-garde. “I do not keep track of fashion,” Kabirski says.

Since 1999, Open World has brought more than 13 500 emerging leaders to the United States from Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. This autumn, Open World will welcome its first delegations from Turkmenistan.

In general, constructive trends in our bilateral economic cooperation sustain themselves. The volume of trade between Russia and America has increased, reaching the level of 7.5 billion dollars. By comparison, the figure for the first quarter of 2007 was only 5.2 billion dollars. The upward trend is quite remarkable.