Archive for 2020

Businessman Who Prefers Monitoring
Economy

Businessman Who Prefers Monitoring

Maxim Protasov, the head of Russian quality control system Roskachestvo, apparently imports his goods hiding behind Russian names and runs his key businesses, TomatoProm and Russalt, from Cyprus. Is...

Are the Dreams of USSR 2.0 Coming True?
Politics

Are the Dreams of USSR 2.0 Coming True?

Mikhail Khazin, a popular Russian economist, has admitted a possibility of creating what he calls the USSR 2.0. According to him, it will include Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. According...

Russian Railway Coaches Sold for Scrap
Economy

Russian Railway Coaches Sold for Scrap

The agreement between the Russian Railways (RZD) state railway corporation and Translom company, one of the largest suppliers of ferrous and nonferrous metal scrap in Russia, under which the latter...

Rospatent Springs Another Surprise
Politics

Rospatent Springs Another Surprise

Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) continues springing surprises on the operators of the market of intellectual property protection with the help of its paradoxical...