This is interesting and backs up what I have been saying from the news coming out of Russia and the Presidential Blog…
Russia will cancel its grain export embargo as soon as the situation with the grain harvest becomes clear, PresidentDmitry Medvedev said on Monday.”As for the grain embargo, it is a compulsory but interim measure,” Medvedev told agricultural producers in central Russia. “As soon as we understand how much we have harvested, the embargo will be canceled. You shouldn’t even doubt that.”
Prime MinisterVladimir Putin said last week that the embargo would be canceled only after next year’s crop was harvested and the size of the country’s grain stock was clear.
Russia imposed a grain export ban on August 15 until December 31, causing a significant spike in grain prices on international markets.
Winter weather in Europe causes travel chaos: Severe winter weather continued its stranglehold on Europe as travelers battled heavy snow, airlines canceled flights and motorists were left stranded.
Moscow presses on while snow storms cripple Europe & US: Widespread blizzards have brought America’s East Coast and parts of Europe to a standstill over the last few days, but Moscow has battled through the heavy snows thanks to a finely tuned operation.
Stuck passengers endure misery at airports: (CNN) — Monday, the official first day of winter, airlines were scrambling to accommodate passengers affected by the cancellation of hundreds of flights after a monster weekend winter storm blanketed a swath of the East Coast.
had to chuckle when I saw this video that Russia Today put together. I am not sure that I agree with Russia Today that Moscow was ready and on top of things, but after what I saw happening in America and Europe. I realized that the snow whooped everyone involved and asked no questions and took no names…
I will say, Moscow did better this time than the last snow a few weeks ago!
I saw this and smiled today. I was wondering if Medvedev was going to do, what I thought he was going to do and he did…
Azerbaijan is going to sell all its gas to Russia’s Gazprom.The picture above is PresidentDmitry Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilkham Aliyev signing the contract…
Under an agreement reached during talks in Baku between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Ilkham Aliyev, 2 billion cubic meters will be pumped to Russia next year and over 2 billion in 2012.
Analysts say the decision will become a serious blow to the Nabuccogas pipeline, which is designed to transport Caspian gas into Europe bypassing Russia.
According to the General Director of the Energy Security Foundation Konstantin Simonov, the Nabucco pipe cannot be filled without gas from Azerbaijan.
As in the whole world, companies in Russia have resorted to job cuts over the past twelve months to stay afloat! Foreign workers were hit hard by these cuts and more than two thirds of expats in Russia have lost their jobs and have had to go home…
The brunt of these expats are upper management with big corporations, that “trimmed the fat” so to speak. Russia has a much better trained management core of workers now than they did even a few years ago. So the need for expats to consultant and train is virtually non existent.
This was an inevitable situation, even with out the financial crises. I have done multiple studies and reports on what I call the McDonald’s Syndrome. One of the by products of a McDonald’s society is a huge influx of well trained management due to an extensive management training program that McDonald’s incorporates in societies that they flourish in. This management team can spread to all aspects of the society and as such, diminish the need for outside influence in the respective fields.
The question that I have and will be studying is: Will these jobs come back in time or are they lost forever? (I hedge on forever!)
Dmitry Medvedev met with representatives of agro-industrial companies of the Central Federal District, had a working meeting with Governor of Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeyev, and visited several of the region’s businesses. […]
Prosecutor General Yury Chaika presented the President with a report on violations by various officials. The results of the prosecutors’ investigations will be submitted to the courts. […]
Dmitry Medvedev was briefed by Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on the situation in Buinaksk, where a terrorist attack took place at a firing range used by the Defence Ministry’s 136th Motor Rifle Brigade. […]
