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2009-10-26T15:40:00.000-07:00

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Doing business in Russia-Doing business with Russians

2007-10-25T21:57:00.000-07:00

Have you ever thought of finding an on-line or off-line business partner from another country? If you have, then you have come upon the perfect opportunity. Not many readers of this blog are aware that I was born and raised in Russia and know and understand the Russian language and culture.The ability to speak and write in 2 languages gives me the opportunity to create blogs and sites in both

Hollywood Comes to Russia

2007-10-07T12:32:00.000-07:00

Despite the movie business's reputation for waste and excess, there are few places more ruthlessly scheduled, more efficiently choreographed than a film set. Unless that set happens to be in Russia. On a recent morning in Moscow, the crew for You and I, an English-language movie directed by British filmmaker Roland Joffé, huddled listlessly around a candy-red Ferrari in the shadow of the Hotel

Business in Russia: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

2007-10-06T13:30:00.000-07:00

Oral hygiene products have certainly come along way since the Chinese first plucked the hairs off of a cold climate pig and pasted them onto an animal bone to invent the first toothbrush over 3,000 years ago. Recent incarnations of the toothbrush have drawn from modern technology to create brush heads that rotate, oscillate, massage and polish and even one that channels music vibrations through

Greece's Folli opens first store in Russia

2007-10-05T09:42:00.000-07:00

Greek jewellery retailer Folli Follie said on Thursday it had opened its first store in Russia and planned to open more soon, as part of its strategy to further expand abroad. Folli said it opened the store earlier this month in the heart of Moscow with Bosco di Ciliegi, one of Russia's leading distributors of world luxury brands. "Due to Russia's strategic geographical position and excellent

Russia-Korea rail link to boost trade, peace: Russian FM

2007-10-04T22:09:00.000-07:00

A planned rail link connecting North and South Korea to Russia's trans-Siberian railway will strengthen trade and boost the Korean peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. "Concrete steps" are being taken to restore a rail link from Russia's trans-Siberian route through 800 kilometres (497 miles) of North Korean territory, Lavrov said after talks with South Korean

A Russian man who has everything

2007-10-04T15:21:00.000-07:00

An unidentified wealthy Russian man attempted to purchase a U.S. B-52 bomber plane from a U.S. delegation of American pilots at an airshow near Moscow. A Russian newspaper said the man, who was surrounded by bodyguards, asked the pilots if he could buy the plane, to which the pilots replied it was not for sale. The American went on to say that if the bomber were for sale it would cost at least

Putin sees foreigners' role in modernizing Russia

2007-10-02T23:49:00.000-07:00

President Vladimir Putin told business leaders in Sochi on Friday that private investors, including foreigners, would have a major role in a 1 trillion USD program planned to modernize industry and infrastructure, the Moscow Times reports. Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said earlier at the same day that the country intends to invest 1 trillion USD in infrastructure over the

Quinn group splashes out €106m for Russian mall

2007-10-02T10:08:00.000-07:00

The property arm of Ireland's richest man, Sean Quinn, has splashed out an estimated $150m (€106m ) to buy its first shopping centre in Russia. Quinn Property Management has acquired a shopping mall and entertainment complex in Ufa, a city of one million people situated in the south-west Urals some 730 miles east of Moscow. The new 120,000 square metre Avrora Centre is scheduled to open later

Dell Reveals Opening Of Retail Store Offering In Moscow, Russia

2007-10-01T16:50:00.000-07:00

RTTNews) - Dell (DELL charts news PowerRating) on Wednesday revealed the opening of a retail store offering in Moscow, Russia. The store, which is scheduled to open early next month in the new Gorbuskin Dvor retail center in Moscow, would feature notebooks, desktops, servers, printers and other products from Dell. Commenting on the store opening, Dell's chairman and chief executive officer

Meeting Russia’s Infrastructure Gap

2007-10-01T11:10:00.000-07:00

On behalf of the World Bank Group and President Robert B. Zoellick, let me congratulate the organizers of the VIth International Investment Forum in Sochi for this wonderful opportunity for open dialogue. I wish us all success and fruitful deliberations in the coming days. It is a great pleasure and privilege to be here today. Why Infrastructure is Important The case for infrastructure

Is it still safe for Americans to invest in Russia?

2007-09-30T09:57:00.000-07:00

YES: Authorities know Russia must rely on foreign investment by ALAN RUGMAN In today's turbulent global situation, no American investor can afford to assume that doing business abroad is risk-free. And that caveat especially applies in Russia. Yet those who argue that recent events in Russia make it far too dangerous a place for Americans to do business are not making an accurate assessment of

Putin tells Asia: Russia is here to stay

2007-09-29T10:12:00.001-07:00

Russian President Vladimir Putin's flurry of meetings with Asia-Pacific leaders here in recent days inspired the inevitable headline in at least one Australian daily: "The Russians Are Coming." On the sidelines of a regional summit along with 20 other world leaders, Putin had a slightly different message: the Russians are here to stay. Adding weight to the diplomatic assurances were big new

Icelander to Construct 40 Malls in Russia

2007-09-29T09:38:00.000-07:00

Skúlason has lived in Russia since 1993. Ingólfur Skúlason, CEO of Moscow-based BV Development, which he founded over a year ago with Russian and British business associates, is planning to construct 40 shopping malls in Russian cities within seven years. “I aim to take advantage of the window that has opened up in the Russian economy,” Skúlason told Morgunbladid. “This is a gigantic project

More than 50,000 cars made in China will be sold in Russia by the end of 2007

2007-09-28T08:06:00.000-07:00

More than 50,000 cars made in China will be sold in Russia by the end of 2007, Vice President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce Sergei Katyrin said on Friday, when opening the international conference on "Automobile Business in Russia and China: Development Trend and Cooperation Prospects". Russia's import of Chinese cars grows rapidly. Only 260 were sold in 2004 and more than 50,000 will be

World Bank Sees A Tougher Russia

2007-09-27T10:13:00.000-07:00

The flood of petrodollars into the economy is stifling reforms, and the country is falling behind its key emerging-market rival, China, on the ease of doing business, the World Bank says. In a survey published Wednesday, the World Bank placed Russia 106 out of 178 countries for ease of doing business.

Russia govt must stay out of business: financier

2007-09-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia needs to guarantee the rule of law and keep government out of business in order to guarantee future prosperity, a leading Moscow-based financier said at the Reuters Russia Investment Summit. Boris Jordan, who helped advise on the country's first privatizations in the 1990s and now runs a $2 billion private equity and advisory firm named the Sputnik Group, said Russia had

Helping Russia's Media Move Toward More Freedom

2007-09-25T15:15:00.000-07:00

WILLIAM DUNKERLEY holds the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. He owns a media consulting firm in New Britain and is an expert on Russian media. He has done extensive work with the media in Russia and six other eastern European countries and also has lectured and written at length about the Russian media. Q: In your work as a media consultant in Russia and other former Soviet-bloc countries

Wholesale center Fruit&Vegetable Business of Russia 2007"

2007-09-25T15:03:00.000-07:00

The organizers of the second international conference "Fruit&Vegetable Business of Russia 2007" invite wholesale companies to participate in the work of Wholesale Center to be held on the 24th of October 2007 in the framework of this event. Theconference will take place in the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya, Moscow, on the 23rd - 25th of October 2007. The wholesale center idea came out due to

Russia says US must engage Iran in Iraq solution

2007-03-22T16:56:00.000-07:00

Russian President Vladimir Putin has severely criticised US policies in Iraq, saying they have destabilised the Middle East. Russia’s protests were ignored when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Russia had a number of lucrative oil deals with the government of Saddam Hussein before it was overthrown in 2003, and Moscow hopes to revive them in negotiations with the new government.

Russia will build more nuclear reactors to supply power

2007-03-22T15:56:00.000-07:00

Government officials said Friday that Russia will build two nuclear reactors annually through 2015, and increase to four a year by 2020 in an effort to sharply increase atomic power generation, according to Russian news agencies. Ivanov said that Russia will launch two 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors a year under a program for which the government has allocated $26 billion through 2015. ”

Sending Mail in Russia

2004-10-10T14:58:00.000-07:00

Sending regular mail to/from Russia is not as complicated as it once used to be. The national mail system is gradually becoming more reliable and delivery times shorter. On average, a letter to/from USA takes about 3 weeks to be delivered. The simplest way of mailing a letter with the right stamps attached is by putting it in one of the blue mail-boxes. These can be found near all local

Russian Military Style Tour For Thrill Seeking Tourists

2004-10-09T19:57:00.000-07:00

For all of you thrill seekers who want to see action that the only see in the action packed movies, pumping up the adrenalin and go wild with excitement, then these are the adventures for you. Go to the east and try Military style tours in Russia . Russia is ideally suited country for this kind of tourism. We all know how long this super power had been accumulating weapons behind their “iron