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I’d like to draw your attention to a great new Russia focused blog by Colleen Winthrop called Winthrop 360. There is sooooo much crap out there in the blogosphere about Russia today that it’s great to see some balance developing between the anti-Russian crowd (La Russophobe, Amsterdam, Applebaum, Lucas, et al) and the rest of […]
Back to serious opinions on Russia and where it’s headed under Medvedev and Putin. Below is an opinion piece from today’s JRL (Johnson’s Russia List) by one of the most astute analysts on Russian business today. Roland Nash is a Managing Director at Renaissance Capital in Moscow. The analysis Roland offers below is the very […]
After yesterday’s rant, I thought it might be helpful to give you some perspective on the infrastructure situation in Russia today. Here’s a great article from Asian Investor.net website titled, “Russian infrastructure needs a trillion dollars.”
Here’s the article:
Asian Investor.net
Russian infrastructure needs a trillion dollars
By Simon Osborne | 19 March 2008
Alternative investment […]
I was just handed a book by one of my colleagues called “A Guide to Land Transactions in Russia” by Andrey Goltsblat. The book is in both Russian and English (Russian on the left and English on the right).
What an amazing resources is this book by itself but also the website for Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & […]
As interest in the Russian regions grows, I wanted to alert you to a great source of information being provided by Kendrick White and his team at Marchmont Capital. I met Kendrick in 2006 when he spoke to the US-Russia Chamber of Commerce of New England members at the invitation of Cathy Mannick.
I was very […]
Ignoring Global Credit Crisis, (Russian) Economy Grows 7.6% in Q3
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The economy expanded an annual 7.6 percent in the third quarter, better than expected, suggesting that problems on global credit markets have not had a major impact on the country.
Gross domestic product growth followed expansion of 7.8 percent in the second quarter and 6.8 percent in […]
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