Telling Russian stories in English
Many readers don’t fully appreciate the art of translation. “When you translate a book, you basically “write” a book,”
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Monday, 30 July 2012
Monday, 23 July 2012
Goodbye In Russian
Goodbye In Russian
До свидания [da sveedaneeya]
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Goodbye In Russian
До свидания [da sveedaneeya]
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Russian For - Hello -
Russian For - Hello -
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Russian For “Hello”
Привет [preeviet]
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How Do You Say Russia In Russian
How Do You Say Russia In Russian
Россия [rasseeya]
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Sunday, 22 July 2012
Russian For Love
Russian For Love
Любовь [lubof’]
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How Are You In Russian
How Are You In Russian
Как Ваши дела [kak vashi diela]
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How to say Starfish in Russian
How to say “ starfish ” in Russian
Морская звезда [marskaya zviezda]
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Vodka Production - New Record in Russia
Russia broke the record for producing the largest amount of vodka in one month, in June of this year Russia was able to produce 96 Million liters (~25 Million Gallon) against a usual 56 Million liter (~15 Million Gallon) a month.
Reason behind this is the planned increase of excise tax on alcohol per the 1st of July, producers were still able to produce the 96 million liter before the 1st of July and get it to the shops before the higher excise tax kicked in.
As the majority of vodka customers have to count every rouble before spending it the producers can’t just increase the price and hand down the excise tax increase to the customer as they won’t be able to afford the vodka anymore. As other price hikes has already driven down demand for legal vodka the amount of vodka producing plants has already halved over the past years.
The demand didn’t go down because people gave up drinking it went down because people started drinking more of the cheaper illegally produced vodka, known in Russia as “from the garage”. Specialists predict that the illegal vodka will dominate the market from next year causing Russia a major headache, instead of regulating vodka intake by regulating the price, statistics show this will back fire and illegal vodka will dominate costing the country because of losing the excise tax.
Of course vodka is Russia’s choice of drink number 1 but others are increasingly picking up, especially wine is coming up fast in the larger cities around Russia, so if you are looking at exporting to Russia make sure you are informed of all laws including tax laws.
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Sunday, 15 July 2012
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Krimsk Tragedy
Krimsk tragedy
Last weekend at night a small town in south Russia was washed down by a torrential downpour. Everything happened about 3 am in full darkness as there was no electricity due to an accident the day before. The number of people killed is about 170 and thousands are left without houses and belongings.
Those who survived are in shock from “tsunami”. Judging from the numerous photographs from the place it sure reminds the effect of tsunami. Not only houses but the whole infrastructure was washed down.
People are in need of everything starting from toiletries, bed goods, clothes and shoes and finishing with medicines and diapers. Water is in great demand. People need the help of psychologists.
Russian internet community organises help from all big Russian cities. The volunteers are arriving from everywhere. The Red Cross helps to deliver first aid and the Russian Post sends packages and transfers money free of charge. People transfer money on Yandex purse and Russian Savings bank account.
There is one website where one can find the telephone numbers and addresses of the headquarters, lists of people who died in the disaster and see where the humanitarian help goes to. The name of the site is Поможем.орг (Help.org). Unfortunately, the site is in Russian. The good news is that about 4.5 million roubles in cash have been collected for people from disaster area.
At the moment all the volunteers (500 registered) are working on cleaning Krimsk from debris.
Our sympathies to people of Krimsk!
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Saturday, 7 July 2012
The Russian Economy Today
The Russian economy today
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Russia has got a new president and a new cabinet recently. In this connection Russian entrepreneurs express their thoughts and expectations in open discussions about the Russian economy today.
The Russian economy is based on the output of oil, gas and metals mostly. During the first three months of this year GDP grew up to 4.9%. The Russian national debt is rather low but the budget depends on the high oil prices. There is no doubt that structural reforms will be the only way for the economic growth. The reforms could improve business and investment environment as well as severe measures against bureaucracy and corruption. The president of the Russian Federation V. Putin set an ambitious task to create a favourable environment for business practices in Russia and move Russia from the place 100 to 20 before 2018 (Doing Business).
The existing system of federal programmes and allocation of funds for small business does not function in favour of entrepreneurs for whom it is not easy to attract investments for their business projects. They believe that the state should not participate in business but just perform as software. Today Russian entrepreneur 90% of his time does courier work doing all the paper work to be able running his actual business.
The problem is not in money itself but in the cost of energy, tax burden, cost of renting, connection of communications -all that is a state business.
The banks are doing right: they consider the projects and provide credits.
The main point is the demand of the market, and the market is huge and open for consumer goods and services.
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