UK-Russia Crossviews

Press review (October 2009)

October 29, 2009 RBTH

The second wave of the banking crisis will<br> affect mostly smaller banks

Moment of truth

October 29, 2009 Denis Kuchkin, head of treasury, Uglemetbank

Crisis: It's time for smaller banks to sink or swim

Investment in Russia: a time to be greedy

October 29, 2009 Yuri Soloviev, Global CEO, VTB Capital

Prospects: the worst of the crisis seems to be over. Is it time to invest in the Russian economy?

Business as usual say investors

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Vladislav Kuzmichev, Russia Now

RussiaTalk, the fifth annual Russian-British investment forum, took place in mid-October in Moscow. The forum was hosted by the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce (RBCC) and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the theme "Back to Business". The gathering offered a perfect opportunity for business leaders to analyse the lessons of the crisis, discuss prospects for restoring economic health, and consider measures to further bilateral business links.

Answering the call

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Viktor Kuzmin, Russia Now

Interview: Russia's fixed-line operators are expanding their subscriber base despite the crisis

First Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant<br> constructed on Sakhalin

New gas strategy revealed

October 29, 2009 Iván Rubánov, Expert magazine

Project: Putin invites foreign companies for next phase in energy development

The future is with nanotech

October 29, 2009 Alexánder Ivlev, Ernst & Young, partner

Agenda: Investors ready to share vital experience

Expat files

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Rebecca Hewitt

Capital stories of foreigners living in Moscow

Sarcasm and fairy tales

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Alexander Melikhov, Russia Now

In our series dedicated to famous Russian authors from the 20th century who remain largely unknown in the West, we present Andrei Platonov. It is difficult to imagine a better novelist who embodied the ambitions and ambiguities, energies and tensions of the young Soviet state and life in the 1920s and 1930s.

Bearing arms: Kalashnikov and the weapon he developed

One man and his gun

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Nadia Kidd, Russia Now

Inventor: Russia celebrates the 90th birthday of the designer who armed the world

Mikhail Simonov has been developing the<br> Sukhoi family of jets since 1969

The sky's no limit for supersonic Simonov

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Dmitry Litovkin, Izvestia

Designer: intelligent design drives evolution of a remarkable jet fighter

Rewards of our profession

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Pavel Palazchenko, Russian Translation Company

Here are some randomly selected English words and word combinations: cardio-vascular system; barley; turpentine; detergent; matinee; oil field; ginger; World Health Organisation; desalination. To anybody but an interpreter, these words would have not

Khrushchev's era and the shoe

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Based on RIA Novosti materials

History: Nikita and the age of the Thaw

Fashion audit

October 29, 2009 RBTH, press-release

The results of Russian Fashion Week, Spring/Summer 2010

Moscow prepares for UK `reset'

October 29, 2009 Vladimir Borisov, Russia Now

Russia sees no obstacles to normalising relations with the UK, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said recently. The statement comes in anticipation of his British counterpart's upcoming visit.

Martin Gilman, former senior representative<br> of the International Monetary Fund in Russia,<br> is a professor at the Higher School of Economics

Privatisation: the sale of the century

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Martin Gilman, economist

Opinion: once it was nationalisation, now it's...

The American challenge

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Sergey Karaganov, political expert

In the late Eighties, as Mikhail Gorbachev was steering the Soviet Union away from its standoff with the West in a bid for a "new thinking" foreign policy, Georgiy Arbatov, a prominent foreign policy expert, made a remark: we will do the most horrible thing to you; we will leave you without an enemy.

Taking steps to reset Nato relations

October 29, 2009 Jakub Kulhanek, Donald K. Bandler, political expert

Ever since US vice-president Joe Biden called for pressing a "reset" button in US-Russian relations, officials from both countries have been making tentative steps in that direction. But the thaw in relations should not obscure the need for improvement of the overall state of relations between Russia and the West.

The question of whether it will be possible to<br> stop the Taliban's funding is critical to the<br> current war

Money for bullets

October 29, 2009 RBTH, Vladimir Snegiryov, special For Russia Now

Afghanistan: Nato forces will stay in Central Asia while the Taliban continues to receive funding

Russia's tilt towards China

October 29, 2009 Andrei P Tsygankov, political expert

China's ways of influencing the north continue to expand. Even routine domestic economic decisions in Russia are increasingly made with a consideration for China. For instance, Beijing sent a delegation to Moscow in July to negotiate conditions of a large group of ethnic Chinese affected by the Moscow government's decision to close the large Cherkizovsky Market following multiple violations of labour and immigration law. Headed by Beijing's deputy trade minister, the delegation negotiated restoration of the trading area on condition of a Chinese $1bn investment. But in recognition of the growing need for China's investments and export markets, Russia was unwilling to press environmental claims against its neighbour when it polluted the Amur river.

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