Search Results for: Russia

THE UNITED States Trade Representative (USTR) has highlighted its continuing concern about intellectual property rights violations in the pharma sector, citing claims that 20% of medicines sold in India are fakes.

In its annual ‘Special 301 Report’, the USTR said it notes “its particular concern with the proliferation of counterfeit pharmaceuticals that are manufactured, sold, and distributed in trading partners such as Brazil, China, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Peru, and Russia.”…

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that Belgium’s planned phase-out of its nuclear power capacity threatens the security of its energy supplies. In a paper on the country’s energy outlook, the IEA concluded: “Phase-out by 2025 is close. Security of supply needs to be ensured, but new investment in generation capacity is lacking.”…

Brazil’s economic and political crisis is delaying plans to develop its nuclear power industry, experts say. This could be a lost opportunity to help the country reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by 2030, and 37% below 2005 levels by 2025 as committed by the government at the United Nations’ 21st Session of the Conference of Parties (COP21), in Paris last December (2015).…

Russian automotive consumers suffering in their country’s current economic recession are delaying vehicle purchases and investing in single, more expensive family cars rather than buy several small cars for individual use, experts have told wardsauto.

They are commenting on data that has confounded predictions that the country’s volatile financial situation would mean a return to purchasing cheaper and smaller car models, such as the Ladas driven during the Communist years.…

Russia and Turkmenistan have discussed selling an increased level of textile and cotton products from this central Asian country on the Russian market, according to a report from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

At a high-level meeting in March between the chamber’s vice-president Alexander Rybakov, and the Turkmen ambassador to Russia, Berdymurad Redzhepov, the two countries raised the prospect of greater cotton exports.…

Chinese investors are considering expanding their presence in the Russian textile industry, according to Russia’s ministry of industry and trade. The move is expected to take place through the Chinese financing of new production facilities within Russia and the relocation of existing China-based textile plants to Russia, ministry officials told WTiN.com,…

As the European Union (EU) dairy industry continues to face challenges, it is calling for EU institutions and member governments to have a greater focus on resolving Russia’s ban on EU agricultural goods, while continuing to open up new markets. In the meantime, the Russian ban has not helped an oversupply problem that is depressing prices.…

Leading Russian publishing houses have filed a petition to the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), asking it to prevent the ever growing domination of Prosveshenye publishing house in the domestic market, especially educational textbooks.

The move follows a recently issued recommendation from the Moscow city government’s education department to its secondary schools to give preference to Prosveshenye books when procuring literature for their school curricula.…

RUSSIA’S agriculture ministry has announced that it is drafting a decree that will extend the country’s ban on imports of a wide range of European Union (EU), US, Canada, Australia and Norway food exports until December 31, 2017. Russian agriculture minister Alexander Tkachev said in Moscow today that his ministry did not plan to expand the number of products covered by the ban.…

GLOBAL personal care product giant L’Oréal will invest more than Russian Roubles RUB2.5 billion (USD37 million) to increase production in Russia, with the company saying its current plant is operating at full capacity. L’Oréal’s Russia spokesperson Valeriya Murygina told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics that the company would expand production facilities at its existing Russia factory, located at the Vorsino industrial park, in the Kaluga region, 85 km from Moscow.…