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Inside this issue
• Rising food prices are of concern that price controls were imposed in the run-up to the elections
• Tensions have eased for now between east, and west but there are still fundamental disagreements
• Second-hand car centre has ambitions to go up-market (PDF) - -
Content
Medvedev inherits a tricky legacy
Long-term social and economic difficulties face Putin’s successor, writes Neil Buckley
The economy: The trouble with reliance on oil and gas
Inflation is taking its toll on the country, writes Stefan Wagstyl
Banking: ‘Sometimes there are benefits to being local’
Western financiers are flocking into Russia, writes Catherine Belton
Foreign policy: Determined to flex muscles
The nation is increasingly ready to assert itself, says Stefan Wagstyl
Politics: Riddle over who steers the tandem
Neil Buckley considers the prospects for a two-man team
Who’s who: Friends in very high places
Neil Buckley profiles six of Russia’s big businessmen
Electricity: A giant generation game
Stefan Wagstyl reports on one of the world’s biggest liberalisations
Construction: Oil wealth secures richlist positions
But the credit crisis could put a brake on projects, writes Catherine Belton
Alexei Kudrin: A guarantor of fiscal discipline
Neil Buckley talks to the finance minister about the difficulties of explaining the need for prudence
Vladivostok: Anxious to shake off end-of-line image
Neil Buckley on plans to reinvent the city as a European centre of culture
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