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Russia anticipates an e-commerce boom

April 16, 2012 Victor Kuzmin
Russian online retailers are expecting this year to be the one in which more Russians embrace the concept of online shopping

Russian bonds model the supply and demand concept

April 13, 2012 Ben Aris
Russia continues to look to international financial markets to raise capital, and so far foreign investors find the offerings very attractive

The coming of America…to Moscow

April 13, 2012 Evy Hua
When Americans visit Moscow, they want both a taste of home and things that seem slightly exotic. Shawn McKenna brought American-style dining to Russia’s capital. He and other American expatriates share their favorite Moscow places

Dinosaurs to pull Chinese tourists into Russia

April 11, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov
Skepticism regarding China’s intentions hampered economic integration in Russia’s Far East, yet trade is booming

Russian startups strive for more foreign venture capital

April 9, 2012 Anna Andrianova
The Skolkovo Foundation, which is creating an innovation center near Moscow, has signed partnerships with major Russian investors and several international funds

Russia reaches top 50 in Bloomberg ranking

April 6, 2012 Pavel Koshkin
Bloomberg ranking targeting investors places Russia ahead of India and China, while a World Bank report still shows Russia in the slow lane. Yet experts are hesitant to rely on the accuracy of the Bloomberg data

NFC Contactless payments take their first steps in Russia

April 4, 2012 Elena Mikhaylova, Adrien Henni, East-West Digital News
Vimpelcom, a major Russian mobile operator, announced it will deploy the NFC-based contactless payment system it implemented in St. Petersburg last year within the Moscow subway

Russia beckons businesses

April 4, 2012 Tai Adelaja, Russia Profile
The Kremlin plans to ram another business reform bill through parliament ahead of an imminent power change

Three Moscow airports are to merge

April 3, 2012 Kirill Slepynin, Aleksey Ekimovsky
Moscow’s three largest airports may merge into a single organization

Baby boom drives plot for toy story

April 2, 2012 Anna Krachenko, Ben Aris
Burgeoning birth rate helps fuel huge growth in the children’s goods sector

Russia monetizes its innovative potential

March 30, 2012 Anna Andrianova
On the last week of March, a team from the Skolkovo Foundation came to Silicon Valley for the eight annual Global Technology Symposium

What developed economies can learn from the BRIC

March 28, 2012 Georgy Neyaskin, Margarita Aranovskaya, Slon.ru
While developed economies have many advantages, there are areas where they can learn from the experience of developing countries, particularly the fast-growing BRIC economies

Siberia made the world play

March 27, 2012 Anna Sherstneva, Tatyana Filimonova, Russky Reporter
Alawar Entertainment, a Novosibirsk-based video game developer, became one of the biggest games companies in Eastern Europe

Russian online outbound travel market can grow ten-fold by 2015

March 23, 2012 East-West Digital News
Katrin Buckenmaier, CEO of Travelmenu, shared her vision of the fast-growing Russian online travel market and her experience of the challenges faced by a foreigner managing a startup in Russia

iPhones for the people

March 19, 2012 Kirill Agafonov, Oleg Khokhlov, Kommersant-Dengi
An offer on a coupon site to get a new iPhone for half price at first glance looked like a scam, but actually turned out to be legit

Russian food goes west

March 17, 2012 Elena Krivovyaz
Russian food manufacturers have ambitious plans to introduce Western customers to their goods

Business goes where the rules are clear

March 16, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov, reporting from Vladivostok
President Dmitry Medvedev sacked of Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin just months before the upcoming APEC summit in Vladivostok. As his successor, Medvedev nominated 44-year-old Vladimir Miklushevsky, rector of the Far Eastern Federal University

Traders forming new bonds with Russian treasuries

March 16, 2012 Ben Aris, Ben Seeder
Foreign investors finding much to like in Russian government bonds after a new law eases trading rules

Taking a new look at nuclear

March 16, 2012 Alexander Emelyanenkov
Denis Kovalevich, head of the nuclear technologies cluster at the Skolkovo Innovation Center, talks about the many uses of nuclear energy

Vekselberg leaves RusAl

March 15, 2012 Andrei Vaisman
Clash of the oligarchs leaves the world’s biggest aluminum producer without a chairman of the board
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