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Russia to Sign Anti-Poaching Deal to Protect Kamchatka Crab

The Moscow Times

... The fisheries agency chief said not a single poaching ship was registered in South Korean ports in recent months following the enactment of a similar agreement with South Korea. Krainy also said Tuesday that fish deliveries will continue this summer via the Northern Sea Route, also known as the Northeast Passage, in Arctic waters above Russia's northern coast. Last year, 27,500 tons of Pacific Ocean salmon were shipped from Kamchatka to St. Petersburg via the sea route, Krainy said. 179742

Green on Green: Shipping Threatens to Trouble Baltic Waters

By Angelina Davydova and Ekaterina Glebova / Special to The Moscow Times

... businessmen talked for the last 20 years about the need to increase capacity at Baltic ports, some logistics firms left for more spacious facilities in nearby Finland and the Baltic states. About one-third of all Russian imports are now estimated to arrive via Finland, costing St. Petersburg 27 billion to 30 billion rubles ($895 million to $995 million) per year in lost revenue, according to the city administration's committee of transportation and transit policy. In the past several years, the government...

Bizzarri, Enrico

... (Italy), bar — restaurant — disco bar &quot;Jet Set&quot; society &quot;Hakuna matata Ltd. Bizzarri Enrico&quot; • Name and address of employer &quot;Hakuna Matata Ltd. Bizzarri Enrico&quot;, Via Ruggero D'Andreotto, 19 / i — 06127 Perugia (Italy) • Type of business or sector Bar, restaurant, disco bar, nightclub • Occupation: Head Chef cuisine <p><b>chef</b><br>• Dates: From June 1998 to January...

For the Record

Russia exported nearly 3.2 million tons of wheat and meslin (wheat and rye mix) in the first quarter of 2012, Interfax reported Friday, citing the Federal Customs Service. (Interfax) Gazprombank raised $500 million via a five-year eurobond issue, cutting initial yield guidance to 5.63 percent, a banking source said Friday. (Reuters) Sistema has cut its yield guidance for its upcoming seven-year eurobond issue to 6.95 percent to 7 percent from initial guidance of...

On Eve of Inauguration, Mass Protest Ends in Violence

By Ezekiel Pfeifer and Jonathan Earle and Rachel Nielsen / The Moscow Times

... attended. City Hall had given advance approval for 5,000 participants to take part in the march and rally. Police said 8,000 demonstrators passed through the metal detectors set up at the start of the march route, but people could reach Bolotnaya Ploshchad via an alternative route. Organizers estimated that there were as many as 100,000 protesters on hand. Udaltsov said on air to Kommersant-FM radio from the Yakimanka police station that organizers had not expected such a high turnout. The event began similarly...

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New Regulations to Speed Customs at Border, Burden Companies

The Moscow Times

... "We will examine each instance of failure to send information as a risk and respond with appropriate measures," Ivin said. The "measures" will consist of more complicated and burdensome inspections. Shipments heading to Russia via Kazakhstan or Belarus should be declared at those borders. Ivin said the system is already in place and collects information on about 60 percent of freight arriving by truck. 179742

Sistema Could Issue Eurobonds

Reuters

... said. Sistema, which has no eurobond issues outstanding and has 58.5 billion rubles ($2 billion) in four domestic bonds, would not comment. A new dollar deal, subject to market conditions, will add to more than $17 billion raised by Russian borrowers via eurobonds in 2012 — more than half the total for last year — as investors are still hungry for Russian risk after March's $7 billion sovereign debt offer. The cost of insuring Russian debt against default for five years was trading at...

Khodorkovsky Lawyers Deny Report That Tycoon Asked for Olympic Visa Ban

The Moscow Times

... said: "I am absolutely convinced that Khodorkovsky could not compile such a list. It's some kind of intentional error or an overt provocation,” Interfax reported. The Sunday Telegraph said that Khodorkovsky had passed the newspaper a letter via his lawyers that said President Vladimir Putin had the power to push Russia toward democracy but had no impetus without pressure. "It is the role of other world leaders to spell out the price Russia tragically pays for being semi-detached from...

Globaltrans Buying Metalloinvest Freight Unit for $540M

Reuters

... cargo volumes in Russia, the world's largest country by territory, which relies on rail to deliver oil products, grain and steel to its home and export markets. "It is an excellent strategic fit," Shenets added. Globaltrans, which raised cash via a secondary offering to buy a controlling stake in BaltTransServis in 2009, has said it is looking for acquisitions. "We believe we are the key player in this market," Maltsev said, adding that consolidation in the sector is under way. "So...

Putin Tells Shtokman Partners to Decide Faster

Reuters

... in Shtokman are under way. … There are different project configurations under discussion now, but Gazprom will keep a 51 percent stake," a source close to the consortium said Friday. Shtokman still aims to begin gas deliveries to Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline in 2016 and start shipping liquefied natural gas around the world beginning in 2017. The first exploration well was drilled in 1988. But backers of the project have been unable to reach a final decision to make investments...

Anti-Putin Rallies Set to Greet Inauguration

By Jonathan Earle / The Moscow Times

... Garden Ring. Organizers invited those willing to risk confrontations with police to gather along Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Novy Arbat, and Ulitsa Znamenka — the presumed route of the Putin’s motorcade, which is expected to arrive at the Kremlin via the Spasskaya Gate at noon. The flash mobs will be free of slogans and signs and don’t require a city permit, organizers said. Meanwhile, the activist hacker group Anonymous announced plans to attack the website of the prime minister on Sunday...

Night at the Museum Returns, Fewer Lines Expected

By Katherine Jacobsen / Special to The Moscow Times

... can avoid the lines. They also have a hotline for information on the night. This year, 10 museums, including the Mayakovsky Museum, the Museum of Retro Automobiles and the Museum of Gulag History, are allowing event-goers to register early online or via a telephone hotline, to ensure a quick entrance into the respective museum. The project this year is funded by the city government in partnership with MITs, an investment-development group. In particular, the Multimedia Art Museum promises a sleepless...

Renault Secures Control of AvtoVAZ

Reuters

... partner Nissan moved to expand in the growing Russian car market on Thursday with a $750 million deal that would give the French manufacturer effective control of Lada maker AvtoVAZ. The tentative agreement to double the alliance's 25 percent stake via a joint venture with a Moscow state entity ups the ante for Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's four-year-old bet on the Russian market, though some analysts said the deal looked dear — valuing AvtoVAZ at nearly three times its $1.2 billion market...

Avito.ru Gets $75M in Additional Funding

By Rachel Nielsen / The Moscow Times

... allows people to select a geographic location from a menu and then post ads. The localized approach gives buyers and sellers the chance to meet in person in order to pay in cash and pick up goods, instead of making online payments or delivering goods via the mail — helpful factors in a market where about 90 percent of goods bought online are paid for in cash, according to Fast Lane Ventures. Currently, Avito.ru's business is in European Russia, with Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg its easternmost...

Moscow Airport Merger Envisioned on Paper

By Roland Oliphant / The Moscow Times

... runway at Domodedovo for repairs in 2014 for operation of the Moscow Transportation Hub," the report stated. The document also considers the option of setting up a concession system that would allow the airports to fund infrastructure development via public-private partnerships — a plan discussed by Transportation Minister Igor Levitin last month. But it concludes that it would be easier to find investors for such projects if the airports were run by a single company. Consolidating Moscow's...

Goldman Sees Insufficient Scale of Road Building

Vedomosti

... 942 billion rubles in 2013 and 1 trillion rubles in 2014. According to Goldman Sachs, by 2018 the state will spend about 1.8 trillion rubles, which is nearly 1.1 percent of forecasted GDP. More than 70 percent of this funding will come from motorists via excise taxes on fuel. The main limitation on the development of infrastructure is not financial, but institutional, the authors of the report state. The government has traditionally not considered the domino effect of investment in infrastructure...

Parents Seek Help in Ugly International Custody War

By Natalya Krainova / The Moscow Times

... sexually abused their daughter before awarding him custody. “Unfortunately, all agencies stand up to defend their own citizens,” Sidelnikova said at the conference, which was held with participants in both Moscow and St. Petersburg joined via video link. Astakhov, who spoke from St. Petersburg, said what has stacked the deck against Russian parents in foreign countries is the fact that Russia until recently did not consider kidnapping by a parent of their own child a criminal offense,...

Dozens Detained as Protesters Relocate

By Alexandra Odynova / The Moscow Times

... rally on June 12, the Russia Day holiday. The march is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. near the Belorusskaya metro station and march down Tverskaya Ulitsa to Borovitskaya Ploshchad, which abuts the Kremlin walls, opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov announced via Twitter. Staff writer Jonathan Earle contributed to this report. 170907 179742

No Outsourcing — No Future?

By Boris Bobrovnikov / CROC

... infrastructure solutions, the customer decided to outsource the entire business process. We are currently completing a pilot project that includes catalogue creation and the digitalization of tons of documents and will soon begin to provide access to them via a web portal as a cloud service. I strongly believe that cloud computing is the future of all outsourcing because it provides customers with exactly the level of resources that they require at any moment in time and, most importantly, ensures that...

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