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Russia Remains Calm Before Financial Storm
Government leaders, businesses and citizens are beginning to understand that the economic growth of recent years is ending. But where are the signs that the boom is over?

Gazprom: Europe should not fear Russia
Europe has nothing to fear from dependence on Russian gas even though at least a third of its gas will come from Russia by 2015, Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev told Reuters on Monday.

Russia's Razgulay plans 690 mln dollars investment
Razgulay, one of Russia's largest agribusiness companies, plans to invest about $690 million this year and next tripling its land area and developing its sugar, flour and groats processing plants.

Russia's Food and Drink Sector to Continue Its “Booming Development” – Bonduelle Russia's CEO
The Russian food and drink (F&D) sector has changed dramatically in terms of offering, distribution, innovation and brands over the last ten or even five years, and it is forecast to continue growing, says Philippe Cohen, General Manager at Bonduelle Russia.

Russia rouble to be free-floating in 1-2yrs-c.banker
The rouble will be freely floating in just one to two years as Russia moves to inflation targeting, a senior central banker was quoted as saying on Monday, suggesting the move could come faster than previously expected.

India-Russia trade target of $10bn faces major hurdles
The targeted $10 billion Indo-Russian bilateral trade by 2010 faces major hurdles, trade experts from both countries agreed during a video conference Wednesday.

Russia’s Medvedev makes bold proposal for a new security agenda
Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the current US presidential campaign, aside from the studied avoidance of any serious proposals to address the worst economic depression since the 1930s, is the fact that both major party candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, have to date been stone silent on the most pressing issue of future war or peace, namely the steps taken by the Bush-Cheney administration to encircle Russia with a new Iron Curtain of NATO member states, including strenuous efforts to push Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, and to establish an advanced nuclear missile defense system which, from a standpoint of military strategy, far from defense, puts the world on a hair-trigger to nuclear holocaust in a few years.

Sistema Chooses NDS Technologies to Deliver Converged IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia
NDS , the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that Russian media giant Sistema Mass Media (SMM) has selected the NDS Unified Headend(TM) to manage and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both IP and mobile networks.

Indian outlook much too US centric, says marketing guru Seth
Forecasting a new geo-economic reality in the world driven by markets of emerging nations, Dr. Jagdish Sheth, world renowned Marketing 'Guru' today asked India to look at issues in a "multi-centric" way instead of the present US-centric prism.

Russia's Razgulay raises $295.2 mln in share issue
Razgulay, a major Russian agribusiness firm, will spend the $295.2 million raised in a secondary public stock offering to repay debt and buy land and agricultural machinery, the company said on Tuesday.