Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category

China’s Top Eight Trading Partners – Russia is number 8

Tweethina trades with the world. Actually, China manufacturers for the world and every now and then buys something from overseas that it can reverse engineer and make on its own.
The top eight trading…

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Posted by Bill Belew on September 21st, 2006 in Asia, China, Russia | 2 Comments

Joint Ventures in Russia – Space Adventures Ltd.

TweetSpace Adventures, Venture capitalist firm Prodea and Russian aerospace firm, Myasishchev Design Bureau are planning to share their science notes to build suborbital flight vehicles that can take …

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 30th, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments

Joint Ventures in Russia – Inchcape

TweetRussia is not quite the bear that the dragon of China is. But, Russia still has appeal despite the many real obstacles and challenges a business partner might face.
The laws change seemingly on a…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 29th, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments

Joint Ventures in Russia – Smirnov Vodka

TweetRussia is not quite the bear that the dragon of China is. But, Russia still has appeal despite the many real obstacles and challenges a business partner might face.
The laws change seemingly on a…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 27th, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments

Motorola Takes on Russia

TweetRussia is growing and so are the shadows that are cast over the business goings on there.
The bureaucracy is still extremely burdensome and growing. And laws are a matter of convience and seeming…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 22nd, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments

Oil’s New Ball Game

TweetIn the 1960′s 85% of the oil in the world was available for ownership, development, partnerships and such. At the time, 14% of the oils reserves belonged to the Soviet Union.
Today it is th…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 21st, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments

Sakhalin Island (part 3) Nervous as Shell

TweetWhen Shell started shelling out mega bucks to drill for oil off the coast of Sakhalin island, Russia wasn’t one of the global oil suppliers. Russia is now.
It is just plain costing too much…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 18th, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments

Sakhalin Island (part 2)

TweetThere is a lot of oil off the coast of Sakhalin Island located in the Sea of Oshkosh, off the coast of Far East Russia and seven time zones from Moscow.
I almost went there once but got stuck in …

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 16th, 2006 in Asia, Russia | No Comments