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RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLASSES
BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN footwear industry is enjoying a boom as a result of a rise in the disposable income of the country’s post-Soviet middle classes. Higher salaries coupled with low utility and housing costs have left 10 million Russians with money to spare and the footwear industry has been one of the beneficiaries.…
VODKA RUSSIA
BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN government has re-launched production of its two most famous vodka brands, Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya, after they had been suspended for several months. The resumption of sales follows a long battle caused by the break up of the Soviet Union.…
RUSSIA - IFC
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TURKISH-OWNED chain of Russian shopping malls and supermarkets is to receive a US$70 million loan from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation to almost double the company’s retail space in the country. Ramenka already operates four shopping malls and 10 supermarkets in the Moscow area under the name Ramstore.…
RUSSIA POULTRY
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN veterinary officials have started inspecting US poultry exporters for the first time since new American sanitary guidelines came into force on September 15. Russia, the largest market for US poultry producers, banned imports of American poultry in March over concerns about production methods and salmonella.…
RUSSIA WARNING
BY MARK ROWE
THE FORMER Russian Energy Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny has warned the country’s major oil companies against further big boosts in output. Mr Kalyuzhny said Russia lacked enough proven oil reserves to justify existing ambitious plans for double-digit output growth over the next five years.…
KAZAKHSTAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation of the World Bank is lending Russian oil company Lukoil US$150 million to fund participation in the development of Kazakhstan’s oil, gas, and condensate field. The money will also help fund a 635-km connecting pipeline to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s infrastructure, which will transport the oil to the Black Sea.…
RUSSIA POULTRY
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN veterinary officials have started inspecting US poultry exporters for the first time since new American sanitary guidelines came into force on September 15. Russia, the largest market for US poultry producers, banned imports of American poultry in March over concerns about production methods and salmonella.…
EBRD IKEA
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending the Russian subsidiary of IKEA US$100 million to finance Russia’s first combined mega-shopping and entertainment complex. It will be built on the outskirts of Moscow and will be Russia’s largest shopping mall, covering 170,000 square metres.…
RUSSIA GAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RUSSIAN government has been pressing the European Union (EU) for a promise that it will not impose cap on its gas imports preventing it buying more than 30 per cent of its supplies from one non-EU exporter, papers released at last week’s EU-Russia summit in Brussels have revealed.…
RUSSIAN ARRESTS
BY MARK ROWE
TWO Russian geologists who prepared maps of radioactive pollution in Siberia are to be charged with revealing state secrets. The environmentalists wanted to use the maps and a 107-page report they had compiled to attract attention to increasing radioactivity around a chemical plant involved in the production of nuclear fuel near Angarsk, a town of 300,000 people close to Lake Baikal, south-central Siberia.…