Economy
Business leaders searching for alternatives to Russia’s commodities-based economyThe plenary session was officially opened by a keynote address by Putin, who outlined highly ambitious economic policies to make Russia a better country... |
FM Logistic Russia: “Our new motto is ‘the art of winning solutions’”Hugues Laurent, the business development director of FM Logistic Russia, spoke about the goals of rebranding of the company and expectations from the policy... |
ROAD safeguards dealers and clients’ interests on the auto retail marketAndrei Petrenko, the president of the Russian Association of Automobile Dealers, highlighted his assessment of the prevailing trends on the Russian auto retail market... |
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Russia needs to emulate China’s example of successful economic expansion into AfricaChina’s position in Africa began to change at the end of the 20th century, when it was able to force other global players to respect its interests in the region... |
EBRD marks 20th foundation anniversary with pride and enthusiasm to the futureThe EBRD has played a key role in the economic transformation of the region of its operations, having committed over 60bln euros to these countries since 1991... |
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Crises and regime changes in the Arab world reshaping global arms marketGlobal arms dealers are hoping that the ongoing crises in the Middle East will not drastically affect the Arabs’ famously extravagant defense spending spree habits... |
Russia’s postcrisis fishery industry backs to Soviet-era production levelAnother positive consequence from the growing activity in the industry was evident in Russia rising from the 9th to the 6th spot among the world’s top fishery countries... |
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Growing volume of collected taxes reflects recovery trends in the economyAccording to the FTS' data, the gross volume of taxes totaled 7.7trln rubles, or 22% higher than 2009's level and just only 3% less than 2008's value, seen as a record... |
The origin of ‘packed bags syndrome behavior’ among Russian capitalism titansThis term aptly highlights the rising overt antagonism between the localauthorities and the leading titans of Russian capitalism... |
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Global experts ‘brainstorm’ over economic growth drivers at Russia Forum-2011The high profile investors forum provides top experts from all works of life a vital platform to air their visions on the sources of new global economic growth drivers... |
Assessment of world economy’s losses from a potential Suez Canal blockadeOil industry experts' growing worries stem from the fact that Egypt, legally speaking, formally controls the Suez Canal, ‘a vital transit gateway’ for Middle East’s oil... |
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Medvedev presents Russia’s resurgent postcrisis economy to Davos audienceThe president highlighted Russia’s resurgent $1.5trln postcrisis economy and its other uniquely competitive advantages as one of the best performing emerging markets... |