... capacity of the world's countries and ranked Russia 95th out of 155. The World Bank assessed the transportation and logistics capacity of the world's countries and ranked Russia 95th out of 155. The World Bank published the rating in the survey Connected to Compete. Russia ranked between Guinea-Bissau and Lebanon, while its partners in the Common Economic Space were higher, with Kazakhstan in 86th place and Belarus in 91st. The top spots in the rankings were held by Singapore, Hong...

Local and international companies have been using business process outsourcing services in Russia since the early 1990s. The first survey of the market was conducted only three years ago by the Russian rating agency Expert RA. The survey showed that the accountancy outsourcing sector was quite small. Few companies offer such services, and only about a dozen provide such services...

Russians are split on how long Vladimir Putin will remain president, a survey said Friday, but few believe he will consider the interests of the middle class, whose discontent has fueled mass opposition protests. Russians are split on how long Vladimir Putin will remain president, a survey said Friday, but few believe...

WASHINGTON — A moderate earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck near Kulob, Tajikistan, early on Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake hit 100 kilometers north northeast of Kulob at a depth of 10 kilometers, USGS said. (Reuters)

... insignificant for decades. "Everyone understands that hijacking a car is against the law, but stealing a film is considered normal," she said. More than a half of Russia's Internet users can't distinguish illegal media content, according to a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation last year. One of the major obstacles to legal distribution of content is the inability of users to afford it, the survey said, RIA-Novosti reported. There are 12 other countries mentioned on the U.S...

... 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 they need. In the Human Age, corporate means of attracting and mobilizing talent will be the competitive differentiator.  In this case, all contemporary practices...

... their wives." She said the time has come for employers to "stop viewing women as a second- grade labor force." Russia ranks 92nd out of 189 countries for the number of female lawmakers in the lower chamber of parliament, according to a survey done this spring by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. 171293 179742

... Yandex had a total of 19.1 million daily visitors in April, while the number of viewers of state-controlled Channel One — the country’s leading TV channel by viewers — reached 18.2 million, according to estimates by TNS Russia, which surveyed people between 12 and 54 years old in cities with a population of more than 100,000. Yandex had more daily users than any other Internet project in Russia, according to the market researcher’s Web Index report, which put Mail.ru in second...

... your page, creating your audience and posting content afterward. Creating and raising the audience from zero is probably still the most complicated question in the matter, but it is possible to deal within a rather concise time. If you conduct a small survey and check who of your direct competitors already has an online profile, on Facebook, on Twitter or on some other popular social sites, you will surprisingly find out: all of them. The competition is tough so straight away go social and keep up...

... rubles, and those on specialists rose 178 percent to 55,500 rubles. HR departments have started to feel more confident as interest in corporate education continues to grow in 2012, Klestova-Nadeyeva said. Companies and educational service providers surveyed by Vedomosti corroborated the growth in demand for corporate education. This demand is driven first by stiff competition, secondly by companies' efforts to dominate new markets and thirdly by the desire to motivate the most talented and effective...

... proof of what we do; that there is feedback for the people who have helped from the people that we have helped. Q: Why do you think that so few Russians give money to charities? (Editor's note: Russia came 130th out of 153 countries in a Dec. 2011 survey by the Charities Aid Foundation) A: The whole understanding of charities was discredited in the '90s because there was so much manipulation, so much dirtiness — the idea that nobody is going to donate apart from fraudsters. But we know how...

... cooperate with Rosneft to develop oil fields in the Barents Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, said "safe operations are our first priority and an integrated part of our work." Under the agreement with Rosneft, the companies will first carry out seismic surveys, with a total of six exploration wells to be drilled between 2016 and 2021, he said in e-mailed comments. "When it comes to oil-spill response, that will be a part of the planning of the exploration wells in the same way as for our other...