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09.07.2009, 21:57
The demand for Russian MBA’s has slumped 50% this year, despite the introduction of discounts and flexible scheduling, with the economic downturn putting pressure on business education.
03.07.2009, 00:09
Russian pharmaceutical retailer, Pharmacy 36.6, has posted a 1Q 2009 Net Loss of 648.5 million Roubles under IFRS.
12.02.2010, 19:38
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Russia is renovating its railroads and sea ports - all part of plan to bypass transit countries when exporting energy products. That means neighbours like Estonia are looking to move from stable cashflows.
22.03.2010, 10:45
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Hi-tech projects are being pushed as part of Russia's economic diversification, but the head of the Russian Venture Company, Igor Agamirzyan, says Russia’s business culture needs to be overhauled.
11.06.2009, 18:06
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Gazprom says it’s received an offer to buy a stake in Slovenia's largest fuel retailer Petrol while the nation's economy minister refuses to sell it. Last month Russia’s Sberbank bought into Germany’s carmaker Opel.
18.09.2009, 20:06
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Business and political leaders meeting at the Sochi International Investment Forum have heard that Russia will be looking to encourage greater foreign investment.
17.12.2009, 20:10
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Russia should shift its focus from oil and gas and begin developing alternative energy. But members of the International Energy forum say innovations will require state investment and social and economic policy changes.
18.09.2009, 16:24
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The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development has released its World Investment Report, placing Russia in 5th position for Foreign Direct Investment inflows over 2007-2008, behind the U.S., France, China, and Britain.
29.09.2009, 18:45
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Russia and India are looking to double trade volumes between the two nations by 2012 to $20 billion annually, with trade growing despite the turbulent global economy.
01.10.2009, 21:42
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President Dmitry Medvedev has called for a 40% boost to Russia's energy efficiency. But experts say political will and modern technologies are not enough if Russia is to become a prudent energy consumer.
Published: 03 July, 2009, 16:48
Dmitry Medvedev will welcome Barack Obama on his first Presidential visit to Russia, with strategic issues likely to dominate the agenda but economic ties also looking to gain a boost.
Economic and business ties are an essential ingredient in any national bilaterlal development, in fact many would argue that they can be the most important, as 'money decides everything' as they say. Now there is a chance for business to be on an equal footing. When the Soviet union broke up, the US thought they had it made, they thought they could control Russia via a few oligarchs with western connections, much the way wall street controls the puppet government in the US. Putin broke this oligarch control, meaning the US had to deal with Russia as a country, and its economics as an indepenent sovereign entity. This ahs precipitated a fair and equitable national exchange environment, and we should be happy to see commercial development and deals struck based on sound business principles rather than US geopolitical control. The more we trade in a true buusiness sense, the more that we become intertwined, the more that our peoples feel mutual benefit and the more busienss contact they have the better. Yes we both have slightly different business styles, but that is something we both need to get used to, it is a cultural thing, neither will cahnge. There is no crime in being different!