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Moscow’s Madoff is Back

March 15, 2012 Oleg Khokhlov, Kirill Agafonov, Kommersant-Dengi
Sergei Mavrodi founded the notorious financial pyramid in the 1990s and his new project is expanding with a vengeance. To what extent such pyramid schemes can be dangerous in the Internet era?

The factory without a warehouse

March 15, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov, reporting from Vladivostok
Car giant Sollers shows how to set up a profitable automobile factory in Russia’s Far East

IT companies lay out the welcome mat

March 14, 2012 Tino Kyuntsel
Russia is not the first stop on the map for outsourcing. Compared to India, Russians are too expensive – and too inventive – which is why the majority of their good ideas require someone else to implement them

US business angel Esther Dyson: “Online services can reduce the costs of being honest”

March 14, 2012 East-West Digital News
Among US business angels, Esther Dyson is probably the one who has invested the most to date in Russia

Russians take to the skies

March 14, 2012 Kirill Slepynin, Aleksey Ekimovsky
Light aviation, which almost completely disappeared in the 1990s, has been making its first steps towards recovery in Russia

Russian android to fly into space in 2014

March 14, 2012 Denis Telmanov, Izvestia
New Russian robot features multiple ways to interact with humans in space

The Made Here project leads Russia away from a “commodity economy”

March 13, 2012 Vsevolod Pulya
A programmer challenges a widespread economic cliché on his crowd-sourcing site

VTB to deal with crisis aftermath

March 7, 2012 Nikita Dulnev
One of Russia's largest banks is poised to rectify the disappointing results of its I.P.O.

Russia's startups getting more appeal

March 2, 2012 Adrien Henni
With local startups and incubators springing up like mushrooms, a number of foreign tech investors have started to operate in the country which strives for modernization

Automated down to the last mile

February 29, 2012 Anastasia Napalkova, Expert Magazine
Qiwi, a company that operates pay kiosks, is taking on the Russian postal service with a network of self-service package collection terminals

Sales soar on the Internet

February 29, 2012 Ben Aris
Russia expected to become the largest e-commerce market in Europe by 2019

Online beats print in ad sales

February 23, 2012 Ksenia Boletskaya, Vedomosti.ru
Ad spending in Russia in 2011 exceeded the levels seen before the global financial crisis. More importantly, online ad sales topped those of print ads for the first time.

How to build a skyscraper in Moscow

February 21, 2012 Anisia Boroznova
Anyone who has ever been curious about the day-to-day operations of a construction company needs only to check out the Bolshoi Dom video project

Russian Business Week takes on Russia in the global economy

February 17, 2012 Darya Alyukova
Investors and pundits gathered in London recently to discuss Russia’s economic development and how it will or will not be affected by the changing political climate

Inefficiency and inequality hold Russia back

February 17, 2012 Vladimir Ustyuzhanin, Voice of Russia
Valery Makarov, president of the New Economic School, is one of Russia’s most respected economists. Voice of Russia recently spoke with Makarov about the state of Russia’s economy and its prospects

GLONASS benefits worth the extra expense

February 16, 2012 Ilya Kramnik
The Russian satellite-based navigational system faces some costly upgrades in the coming years, but its increased capabilities will be worth the additional expenditure

Airbnb puts its brand on Russia

February 15, 2012 East-West Digital News
After launches in a range of European, Latin American and Asian countries, U.S. alternative accommodation site Airbnb.com, is coming to Russia

Russia's jewelry business has seen sustainable growth

February 15, 2012 Roman Golubev, Rosinvest.com
Russian jewelry manufacturers see gold not just as a costly raw material, but also as a valuable finished product

Revitalizing Russia’s rust belt

February 9, 2012 Artem Zagorodnov
This industrial center on the border between Europe and Asia is counting on foreign investment to revitalize its manufacturing base

Investors banking on second half of 2012

February 8, 2012 Ben Aris
An economic recovery in Europe could result in unexpectedly high returns on Russian stocks
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