Moscow is the world’s most expensive city for the second year in a row, thanks to an appreciating ruble and rising housing costs, a new survey reports.
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June 19, 2007
The Cognac industry of southwest France yesterday reported record exports, thanks to an explosion of sales to Russia and China.
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June 15, 2007
Boeing and Aeroflot signed a deal Saturday for the Russian carrier to acquire 22 Dreamliner jets from the American plane maker.
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June 11, 2007
According to Pravda.Ru, PepsiCo and PepsiAmericas, the second-largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola products, said they agreed to jointly acquire 80 percent of Ukrainian juice company Sandora LLC for a total of $542 million plus assumed debt to increase their presence in the East European country.
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A former USSR citizen has been awarded a record-setting settlement from her former spouse in divorce, $184 mln, which made the divorce process the most expensive one in the US history.
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June 6, 2007
Hilton Hotels Corp. has announced three new development alliances that will allow the company to introduce over 55 new hotels in the Caribbean, Central America, Russia and the United Kingdom in the next five years.
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MTV Networks has sold its majority stake in a Russian joint venture for $360 million, reducing its participation in a market where it was a pioneer in bringing western youth culture to the eastern bloc.
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June 4, 2007
Church’s Chicken has announced the introduction of the chicken chain into the Russian market.
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June 1, 2007
Rosinter Restaurants Holding, a leading restaurant operator in Russia and other former Soviet republics, intends to raise about $125 million from an initial public offering.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a working visit to Moscow of Mozambiquean Foreign Minister Alcinda Antonia Abreu would be useful for the consolidation of bilateral cooperation in the international arena.
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