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Picture: The Yo-Mobil designed to bring the Russian car industry back on track.
10.11.2011   Business

Prokhorov in search for passenger for his hybrid car Yo-Mobil

Moscow. The Yo-Mobil is to become the high tech car at a low price. For billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov the car however proves to be too expensive. He is searching for a co-sponsor for his project.

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Picture: Abkhazia and South Ossetia, international outlawed cars inhibit the flow of traffic in terms of Russia's entry to the WTO.
01.11.2011   Business

Russia-s entry to WTO becomes real: EU urges Georgia

Moscow/Geneva. The for years postponed WTO entry Russia's could become reality by the end of the year. The EU more or less forced Georgia to agree to a compromise.

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The Russian-Belorussian border is already free of costums (photo: vesti.ru)
20.10.2011   Business

Former Soviet Republics strive Customs Union

St. Petersburg. On the initiative of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, eight former Soviet Republics agreed on a joint Customs Union in St Petersburg, late on Tuesday evening.


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The shine of the Ruble as a stable currency is once again in the dark. (photo: vesti.ru)
22.09.2011   Business

Ruble weakens, Euro hits the 43-ruble mark

Moscow. If one could only understand the foreign exchange: Everybody talks about the Euro crisis but somehow the Euro reaches new heights against the ruble. But in Russia there is no reason for a currency weakness - not yet.


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Picture: Specialists are also needed in the car industry.
13.09.2011   Business

Russia is running out of own workforce

Moscow. Modernization in Russia is short of workers. By 2025 the countries´ working population will have declined by 10 million people. It will be necessary to specifically recruit skilled foreign workers.

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Picture: Money piles up for the most businessmen who work in Russia.
12.09.2011   Business

How to do good and legal business in Russia

Moscow. Only one of the many Russian stereotypes is true: Russia offers huge potential and that also for European Middle Class businesses and investors. But one has to know the ups and downs of the Russian economy.

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Picture: The economic future is not as rosy as it was in the past: Staff of the Russian GAZ automobile factory.
08.09.2011   Business

Chubais forecasts ten difficult years for Russia

Moscow. Russia´s economy is entering a new era: budget deficits, lower growth and painful reforms are looming, according Ex-Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais, now Head of the state holding “Rosnano”.

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Picture: Norilsk Nickel plans to buy back its own shares.
20.08.2011   Business

Norilsk Nickel uses opportune moment for share buyback

Moscow. The metal group Norilsk Nickel uses the weakness of the stock market to announce a buy-back of its own stocks. The group reportedly pays out a generous premium.

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View over Moscow. The city is to expand again. (photo: ab/.rufo)
14.07.2011   Business

Gigantic plans: Moscow to double in size

Moscow. Russia's capital city is to grow even bigger, at least territorially. An expansion to the south of Moscow was agreed with the regions. Two million people are to move. The program will cost billions.

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07.07.2011   Business

East Committee urges for visa free travel by 2018

Berlin. The german Committee on East European Economic Relations wants fixed deadlines for the abolishment of visa requirements between the EU and its East European neighbor states — and calculates its losses due to this hurdle.

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07.07.2011

Railway has big plans for the Football World Cup in 2018

01.07.2011

Three-Customs Union: Customs officers pull out

22.06.2011

Solstice: New Chairman for Norilsk Nickel

16.06.2011

VW and Skoda soon roll off the GAZ production line

06.06.2011

Norilsk Nickel: Controversy over Voloshin's fat paypacket

26.05.2011

Siemens and Hyundai are planning to run the Moscow Metro

12.05.2011

Fight against alcohol: Russia is threatened by a new Vodka deficit

23.04.2011

Phantom negotiations between Deripaska and Potanin

05.04.2011

Car lover Putin tests first Russian hybrid car

31.03.2011

Voloshin: Now directorship, 2012 even more?

17.03.2011

Turkey blocks South Stream route to Europe

14.03.2011

Norilsk Nickel: Battle of the oligarchs behind the scenes

11.03.2011

Scrapping scheme: 470000 old cars were exchanged

10.03.2011

Potanin ahead of Deripaska in NorNickel Dispute

01.03.2011

Oligarch s billion dollar gamble: the cards are dealt again

18.02.2011

Russian Defense Industry is booming

17.02.2011

Moscow's elite rental prices, only Tokyo is more expensive

09.02.2011

Deripaska as Pirate of the Caribbean in the battle over Norilsk Nickel

27.01.2011

Director Mikhalkov loses his windfall

09.11.2010

At a speed of 400 km/h from Moscow to St.Petersburg

30.09.2007

Fiat's aims for bigger market share with new Russian plant

24.09.2007

Sukhoi to unveil the Superjet 100

19.09.2007

Carmakers flock to Russia

07.09.2007

Australia to supply uranium for Russia's atomic power

25.08.2007

Russia confirms hitches in delivering oil to Germany

22.08.2007

MAKS 2007: Putin gets millions of dollars worth of contracts, but no ice cream

16.08.2007

Hyatt builds its first luxury hotel in the Ural region

08.08.2007

What will happen to the ruble, if China dumps the dollar?





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20.10.2011Former Soviet Republics strive Customs Union
14.10.2011Impending Crisis: Russian Court for budget cuts
05.10.2011Putin adds Eurasian Union into the election manifesto
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13.09.2011Russia is running out of own workforce
12.09.2011How to do good and legal business in Russia
08.09.2011Chubais forecasts ten difficult years for Russia
05.09.2011Polit-Oligarch Prokhorov introduces shadow cabinet
30.08.2011Time for emotions: Elections campaign starts in Russia
28.08.2011Overflowing landfills: Moscow threatened to drown in garbage
25.08.2011Matvienko resigns after election victory of 97 percent
20.08.2011Norilsk Nickel uses opportune moment for share buyback
13.08.2011Kozak to be appointed new Governor in St Petersburg
06.08.2011Gorbachev criticizes the Kremlin Party - who is cross
26.07.2011Soyuz space capsule: Flying in the undercarriage
24.07.2011Medvedev orders beer restriction - but only from 2013
14.07.2011Gigantic plans: Moscow to double in size
07.07.2011East Committee urges for visa free travel by 2018
07.07.2011Railway has big plans for the Football World Cup in 2018
01.07.2011Three-Customs Union: Customs officers pull out
29.06.2011Nemtsov and Kasyanov fail in party admission
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16.06.2011VW and Skoda soon roll off the GAZ production line
10.06.2011EU-Russia Summit: Cucumber embargo soon over

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