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How Moscow fights traffic jams Cars slowly move along a bridge in traffic jam in central Moscow on March 6, 2020 AFP For almost a decade, Moscow has ranked first in the world’s road congestion rankings. What is the Russian capital doing to overcome the problem and why is it not working? “The streets were deserted, like in some post-apocalyptic movie. It was especially creepy in the center of Moscow, where all life had completely stopped,” is how Moscow driver Ruslan Sereg...

Putin Finds Ally in China’s TikTok in Crackdown on Critics Bloomberg 4/30/2021 Madis Kabash (Bloomberg) -- Mikhail Petrov’s TikTok posts started going viral this year when he tapped into growing discontent in Russia with bite-sized explanations of the country’s budding protest movement. His popularity exploded to over 250,000 followers and TikTok invited Petrov, a political science student at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, to join a talent development ...

Who is Russia’s entrant for the delayed Miss Universe 2020 contest? (PHOTOS) Denis Grishkin / Moscow Agency; Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS Artist, architect in training and a great fan of dining on Don River crayfish - these are just some of the facts about Alina Sanko, who hopes to become the next Miss Universe. Alina Sanko, Miss Russia 2019 and entrant for the 2020 Miss Universe contest (the contest was postponed until May 2021, due to the pandemic), was born on December 31, 19...

Share The visit started with the insightful LETI campus tour guided by Vladimir Pavlovskikh, Head of the Property Development Office. The tour was followed by his presentation of LETI development plans, which foresee a new 9-storied mixed-use building and Gazprom training center on the campus, a hostel outside it, and suburban property development. International jury members of the joined the group by Zoom. A lively discussion was triggered by the presentation of Anastasia Minina, Vice-Rector ...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  Russia has long struggled to overcome its inability to retain talent for homegrown innovation and R&D. As a result, Russia’s global activism leans heavily on tried-and-true tactics. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary How will the Kremlin’s tool kit evolve as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deepfake forgeries become more wi...

Moscow Exchange Announces AGM Results Date in absentia on 28 April 2021. Shareholders approved the Companys 2020 Annual Report, its annual financial statements and distribution of profits, including dividends, for FY 2020. As recommended by the Supervisory Board, shareholders voted to pay a dividend of RUB 21.5 bn, or RUB 9.45 per ordinary share, for 2020, representing 85% of the Companys 2020 IFRS net profit. Dividends will be paid to nominee holders and trust managers recorded in the re...

Emma Studies on being Australias top studygrammer and creating content as a side hustle to pay her way through uni Cam Wilson © Supplied Emma Studies in an Australian studygrammer who creates content of her hyper-organised, colourful stationary and organisation systems. Emma has more than half a million followers across Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Tumblr and also runs an active Facebook group with more than 5,500 members. As part of Business Insider Australia’s Under The...

Columns What way out of the crisis for Russia? Jacques Sapir, Contributing Editor Russia has emerged relatively unscathed from Covid-19. The recession was less severe, there, than in Europe. The rebound in hydrocarbon prices since fourth-quarter 2020 has undoubtedly helped. But the government seems more in a hurry to resume a policy of austerity, the consequences of which could be harmful on growth. Prices and production. This rebound in hydrocarbon prices—the resul...

Turkish Support For Ukraine, Including Arms Sales, Tests Russias Forbearance Towards Ankara April 26, 2021 Although Russia and Turkey have backed opposite sides in Syria and Libya and Turkey played an important role in Azerbaijans victory over Armenia and had turned the Hagia Sophia church from a museum to a mosque, the Russian leadership was able to swallow it. [1]The friendship between Turkeys Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky that extended to the sale of Turkish attack dron...

© Luc Boegly Text description provided by the architects. Located in the “Ile de Nantes” a site undergoing industrial transformation, the Alstom Warehouses requalification project marks a new step towards the objective of urban rehabilitation. It goes beyond – it is about city-making, city-making together on the old Alstom warehouses site so that a new dynamic arises at the crossroads of culture, technology, and economy. © Luc Boegly In over 20 years, the available 26,000m2 (280,000 sq....