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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

Murmansk: Wasteland starts to come in from the cold

Retail: Gone shopping with a vengeance

Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco: Opening the gate to unlimited opportunities

Guest column: The risk of mistakes in a political transition


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