Monthly Archives: November 2008

WSJ Article on Sochi

In September of this year, Anton Troianovski, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, spent a couple days here with me in Krasnodar and also down in Sochi where he attended the Sochi Investment Forum.
I really enjoyed showing Anton around Krasnodar and hoped that he would be able to capture some of Krasnodar’s positive energy [...]

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Read Russian without speaking Russian

Mark November 10th on your calendars as the day that the Russian internet became accessible to the whole world. Google announced yesterday that they added their Google Translate engine as a feature within Google Reader. This is very big news for all of us who may read and speak some Russian but not enough to [...]

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Your Move President Obama

Peter Lavelle writes an insightful article on President Medvedev’s State of the Union address on Wednesday November 5th.
Here’s the link to Peter’s article.
As Sergey on one of the forums so succintly put it, Medvedev was basically saying:
Guys, there are red lines. One of them was crossed, and there was a war which we had to [...]

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