Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category

Gazpromm Huffs and Puffs

Russia’s Gazpromm huffed and puffed because it seems that Western European countries want to block it from buying local gas distribution companies.
Gazprom threatened to take their gas elsewhere…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 5th, 2006 in China, India, Russia | No Comments

Russia Launches Israel’s Satellite to Spy on Iran

Last week Russia launched a satellite designed and made in Israel.
The satellite can detect objects about the size of an open magazine. Cool!
The first mission seems to be to gather data (on Alia…

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Posted by Bill Belew on May 4th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

China, India and Russia are Driving Global Business Growth

There are four countries that are driving the global growth of stock markets. Three of them are in Asia – China, Russia and India. The fourth is Brazil (it’s not in Asia. But, then you kne…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 29th, 2006 in China, India, Russia | No Comments

International Intellectual Property Alliance – Piracy in Russia

There has been a lot of talk about Chinese Piracy and concessions cracking down on the Chinese. 
What I read today reminded me of an old Carpenter’s song that was song by the…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 23rd, 2006 in China, Russia | No Comments

Saddam’s Bad Intel

Doing business anywhere, in Russia, Korea, Japan China or elsewhere depends on good communication among partners and unfortunately among the political leaders as well..boneheaded as they may be.
Dr. V…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 22nd, 2006 in China, Japan, Russia | No Comments

Dr. Alexander Vorontsov – Brookings Institution – North Korea & Russia

Dr. Alexander Voronstov recently spoke on a panel at UC San Francisco about relations between North Korea and Russia and that relationship’s in Asia.
Dr. Volontsov pointed out that a k…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 19th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments

Alexander Volonstov – Brookings Institution

Dr. Alexander Volonstov of the Brookings Institution is Head of the Department for Korean and Mongolian Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He al…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 19th, 2006 in Russia | No Comments

Dr. Bojiang Yang – Brookings Institution

Dr. Bojiang Yang recently spoke on a panel at UC San Francisco about relations in North East Asia.
Of the five speakers, Dr. Yang was the most difficult to follow. It had much to do with not…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 17th, 2006 in All about Korea, China, Japan, Russia | No Comments

Ford Q1 Sales are up 85%

Ford is motoring along. Their sales soared 85% in the first quarter in a country where they are still the biggest foreign automaker – Russia.
Their Focus compact sedan led the way complemen…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 10th, 2006 in Russia | No Comments

Get Your Dacha Now

The Moscow Times reported that now is the time to book your dacha.
I remember these things and the love my Russian friends had for them. They can only be visited during the summer, which comes on…

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Posted by Bill Belew on April 4th, 2006 in All About Russia, Russia | No Comments