Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category

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

hina 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 part…

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Posted by Bill Belew on September 21st, 2006 in All About Russia, All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, Russia | No Comments

Joint Ventures in Russia – Space Adventures Ltd.

Space 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 you a…

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

Joint Ventures in Russia – Inchcape

Russia 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 whim…

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

Joint Ventures in Russia – Smirnov Vodka

Russia 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 whim…

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

Joint Ventures in Russia – Budweiser

Russia 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 whim…

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 26th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

Motorola Takes on Russia

Russia 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 seemingly ci…

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

Oil’s New Ball Game

In 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 the rev…

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

Sakhalin Island (part 3) Nervous as Shell

When 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 for …

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

Sakhalin Island (part 2)

There 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 the i…

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

Russia’s Positive View of the US Drops

The Washington Post Pew Research Center polled people in 15 different countries.
Nearly all of them have worse opinions of the US now than they did a year ago….and they didn’t like the US …

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Posted by Bill Belew on June 15th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments