Instructions

Materials, which you will find below in the little library, are about the Russian Federation, its economy, legislation, society in a historical period after the breaking-up of USSR in 1991.

The color marks in parenthesis after the name of the article mean:

Red - text is more for experts in an economy, markets, investments, etc.

Dark blue - there is an average number of economic terms, numbers, etc in the text.

Green - text is for reading of the users without economic education.

Rosoboronexport to present Russian Su-35 fighter in Santiago

Rosoboronexport State Corporation will present Su-35 multi-role fighter in the airport of Chilean capital of Santiago within the 15th FIDAE-2008 International Air and Space air show, as reported the press-service of Rosoboronexport.

Dmitry Medvedev continues to realize Vladimir Putin's tasks

Dmitry Medvedev drummed up the support of the biggest Russian population part during the last elections. And he has actually received carte blanche for those projects and tasks realization, which were set by the president Putin within the strategy framework of Russia development by 2020. The primary aim is investments into a man and Russia formation as the most attractive country for living. This aim becomes the new priority, and all main Russian projects and programs are directed at it.

Russian military expenditures

World military expenditures exceed $1 trillion a year, declared the director of the Center for Policy and International Studies Alexander Nikitin. According to him, they are rather estimated at $1,3 trln. Moreover, Pentagon open expenditures total $481 bln plus $270 bln as the additional financing. He reported about this on the Moscow meeting of the research and expert council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Russia made decision about complete restriction of crab catch in Far-Eastern seas

On the past in Vladivostok the Far-Eastern Scientific and Trade Board (FESTB) was taken the decision about complete restriction of crab catch in Far-Eastern seas. “The very important, though disputable decision, is taken about stopping of official Russian crab fishery on Far East”, quoted in the press-service of city administration the words of Irshat Shaykhov, the minister of fish industry of Kamchatka Territory. Commenting this decision, Shaykhov added that “now all crab on the Japanese market will be only illegal, and it will be simply impossible to hide the stake of poacher catches from the public”.

Four centers of nuclear medicine to construct in Russia

Federal Bio-Medical Agency of the Russian Federation elaborated the concept of the federal target program for development of nuclear medicine. Valentin Uyba, the agency head, reported about this. According to him, the new project is scheduled for the period from 2010 to 2015 and includes construction of four centers of nuclear medicine in Dimitrovgrad, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg and Dubne.

Russian Billionaires

Number of dollar billionaires has increased from 61 to 101 in Russia for a year. “Finans” magazine published the annual rating of the 500 richest people of Russia for the fifth time. Their total estate equals $715,3 bln, and first top ten - $221 bln.

Russian government seriously intends to carry out breakout in nanotech development

Russian Federation (RF) government seriously intends to carry out a breakout in nanotechnology development. By 2015 the sales volume of the Russian nanotech products will total, probably, RUR 900 bln a year. About this reported the source in the RF government

Batch production of space suits began in Russia

Russian “space” physicians are ready to share their developments with “earth” colleagues. “We began the batch production of Regent loadings suits that can help the rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands patients after an ischemic stroke, and wait orders from neurological clinics and other potential consumers”, reported Irina Saenko, deputy general director of Aerospace Medicine Center, senior research assistant of Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). According to the data of clinical trials, Regent application increases efficiency of patients’ rehabilitation after an ischemic stroke and cranial cerebral traumas almost twice, she marked.

Internet development in northern regions of Russia

The Russian Internet search portal “Yandex” has published the data of the latest research “Internet development in regions of Russia. Autumn-Winter 2007″. Though the estimations stated in this report can be disputed, in the whole the document looks verisimilar. World Wide Web development in Siberia and in the Far East

Consumers’ protection in Russia

On December, 12, 2007 the new consumer protection law took effect as amended. Changes concern first of all salesmen of technically engineered products, large household appliances, car dealers. Well and, of course, customers. But if for a customer the law is advantageous, salesmen have the great number of claims.