... foreign companies. The debut of foreign ice cream producers at the 16-year-old event may be an indication of the changes to come as Russia prepares to enter the World Trade Organization. Industry experts anticipate that WTO accession will increase competition on the market and potentially lead to a better quality of icy treats for customers. Ice cream makers from Belarus, Spain and Lithuania will take part in the festival. Valery Yelkhov, head of the Russian Union of Ice Cream Makers, said competition...

The Communications and Press Ministry has opened a much-anticipated competition for 4G wireless frequencies, with winning telecoms operators to be announced July 12 and licenses to take effect in 2013. The Communications and Press Ministry has opened a much-anticipated competition for 4G wireless...

... agreements. Our cooperation with Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service over the last year or so has been enormously valuable to helping us understand this very competent agency’s enforcement priorities and approach. Their investigations of anti-competitive practices often overlap considerably with anti-corruption enforcement. At the same time, we have worked hard to clarify for the service the compliance responsibilities faced by our clients from the U.S., the U.K. and other countries with increasingly...

... managed to maintain its railroads, ports and existing airports, although development of civil aviation in the regions remains weak. But roads are the area in greatest need of investment, according to the analysis. In the World Economic Forum’s competitive rating, Russia gets 130th place for road quality, below Angola, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Expenditures on road construction are growing — from 255 billion rubles ($8.5 billion) in 2005 to 545 billion rubles in 2011. But the rate of...

.... Resources that were once limited are now plentiful, and those that were once plentiful are now limited, such as skilled human talent — the single most important engine of productivity in the Human Age. In the past, access to capital was the competitive advantage that fueled productivity. Today, talent is quickly becoming the scarce resource. According to ManpowerGroup's most recent Talent Shortage survey, one third of employers around the world are finding it difficult to secure the talent...

... tune. They competed against Iceland, Hungary, Greece, and others in the semifinal round. In the final round, the group will face the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Azerbaijan, and the victors of the next semifinals, scheduled for Thursday. The competition between the 20 finalists will be held Saturday. The women, all above the age of 70, come from a village in the Udmurtia republic and have endeared themselves to the country with their mix of traditional singing in Russian and Udmurt with international...

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... portability probably wouldn’t happen for “several years.” Yuly Matevosov, a senior telecoms analyst with Alfa Bank, predicted that it won’t be available for another year or more. If it comes into play, portability would increase competition for subscribers. The market share held by operators would be “much more vulnerable,” Matevosov said by telephone. A significant offer for new customers could quickly add subscribers, Matevosov said, while a major service problem...

... advantages, too. For example, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will be more willing to finance the development of the first modern shopping mall in Bryansk than the 100th one on the overheated Moscow market, where private capital and competitive bank financing are already available to both developers and investors. Development economics in regional cities are particularly attractive. The administrations there are not yet spoiled with competing development schemes; the cost of land...

... Eurovision arena, the extravagantly illuminated 23,000-seat Crystal Hall on the shores of the Caspian Sea, and residents were forcibly evicted without proper compensation. The 28-year-old pop singer won with the song “Euphoria” in the annual competition of 42 countries, delighting viewers and the contest’s professional judges and dancing barefoot as she sang. After the show, traditionally heavy on kitsch, bizarre costumes and dramatic presentation but low on politics, Loreen steered...

... former president and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave Arkady Rotenberg's Mostotrest an extravagant gift of several tens of billions of rubles' worth of contracts for road construction in Moscow without competition. Before leaving the Kremlin, former president and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave Arkady Rotenberg's Mostotrest an extravagant gift of several tens of billions of rubles' worth of contracts for road construction in Moscow without...

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... other companies have to wait for the allocation of frequencies to operators for 4G communication, which the Defense Ministry reserved for Osnova Telecom. Last year the State Commission for Radio Frequencies (SCRF) suggested that Roskomnadzor hold a competition before February 1, 2012 to obtain licenses for the provision of services within the RF bandwidth of 791-862 MHz, but we have only now become aware of the conditions of this competition. This is precisely why the battle for the assets of Scartel...

... the Chinese visit that talks had not progressed, nor had the company reduced its asking price for pipeline gas deliveries to China. Analysts have said China could not afford to pay Russia's asking price without raising domestic rates and eroding its competitive advantage in manufacturing. "As always in the course of big work, there are issues that require additional attention, but we have learned to do it the way close friends do," President-elect Vladimir Putin said Friday after Gazprom...

... half the parts are the original ones, but it's done more than 1 million kilometers." AvtoVAZ officials said the seven cars in the series had sold more than 17.75 million vehicles by March of this year. But AvtoVAZ has struggled against foreign competition since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Side by side on the streets with hulking SUVs favored by the nouveau riche, it became a symbol of the gap between rich and poor. AvtoVAZ bowed to the inevitable last month by halting production...

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... population at or above 1 million, is lower than 300 square meters per 1,000 residents. The situation is even worse in third-tier cities, which have populations of more than 500,000. Based on a detailed marketing analysis, we can say with assurance that when competition is analyzed for new, high-quality retail projects in many second- and third-tier cities, it often turns out that all existing shopping centers could be labeled as competition in a very symbolic way and should be called shopping centers only...

... and consumers of electricity and contain several major innovations." The new rules introduce fines of three times the cost of electricity for unmetered consumption and lift restrictions when changing suppliers. "We need real steps to improve competition in the retail electricity market, moreover power companies must have a robust and predictable environment, robust and predictable demand," Putin said. (MT)

The government's Foreign Investment Commission gave its support Wednesday to the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service's claims against Nordic operator Telenor, Interfax reported. The competition watchdog filed a claim in April asking Telenor to return 234 million VimpelCom Ltd. preferred shares it bought from Weather Investment, saying the Nordic region's largest phone company didn't receive the commission's permission to raise its...