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27.08.2010, 06:09
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Society in Russia splits over those who are chasing high couture brands and those who enjoy the fakes. While government tightens control over property and intellectual rights, demand for counterfeit goods is on the rise.
10.06.2010, 13:20
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The Russian Finance Ministry is proposing new taxes on cigarettes and vodka with some analysts fearing that it could lead to a significant increase in counterfeit goods.
24.05.2010, 22:17
A range of hotels in Russia’s northern capital have attracted the attention of the federal anti-monopoly service for increasing prices prior to a major economic event.
29.09.2010, 21:29
While the world was suffering through the deep recession, Russians were getting richer. Average incomes in the country have even caught up with those in Europe, the country’s Statistics Service claims.
17.08.2010, 22:42
Businessmen working in Russia will soon have a say on all laws affecting their interests, even before they are adopted.
03.08.2010, 21:53
The IMF says that Russia will return to economic growth in 2010, recovering half of its 2009 losses by the year's end.
12.01.2010, 20:57
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The number of registered unemployed in Russia will reach 2.2 million this year - according to the government's forecast.
20.10.2010, 20:31
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An unprecedented car boom is expected to burden already suffocating Russian roads by 2014, according to the country’s Ministry of Trade and Industry.
08.09.2009, 12:21
Russia's economy is through the worst of the financial crisis and is on the road to recovery, according to the country's minister for economic development.
08.10.2010, 21:10
As the year 2010 is drawing to a close, Moscow hotels seem to have overcome the devastating consequences of the recent crisis – at least in terms of bookings.
Published: 28 September, 2010, 18:07
Edited: 30 September, 2010, 04:48
The global financial crisis buried all positive tendencies to minimize pirated items on sale in the Russian capital, where reportedly up to 24% of goods in some categories are replicas.
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The war on counterfeits should be universal and ruthless. In Britain (sorry anti- Anglo-Saxons) we have been persuaded to understand that every item of counterfeits bought pays for terrorism, piracy, organized crime, slavery, drugs, vice and human trafficking. There are criminal laws to combat the problem, including a growing number of prohibitions on the Internet operated 'market' and protection from non-authentic purchase fraud by the Regulations of Distant Selling and our credit card providers. But there are always those who simply don't care in their own pursuit of 'unaffordable luxury' at a knock off price. Hence, there is always a notorious 'demand-supply' chain to break, we have to do more to destroy every single link.