Tim Gosling in Moscow
Tue, 25th May -- Russia's two biggest telecommunications companies are head and shoulders above their compatriots when it comes to brand value.

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Tue, 25th May -- Early regulation has made telecommunications one of the most developed sectors in Russia. Whilst state enterprises, with their infrastructure inherited directly from Soviet-era institutions, dominate the fixed-line market, they have largely failed to move into the new higher-tech areas. Instead, it's the big private mobile that are moving into the fixed-line space as they search for growth drivers.

Tim Gosling in Moscow
Tue, 25th May -- Russia's first major private-public partnership, or PPP, deals map a new infrastructure development route, but at what cost?

Ben Aris in Moscow
Tue, 25th May -- Mikhail Fridman has always set his sights high. The Russian oligarch started his working life cleaning windows in the early 1990s, but a decade on and he is one of the most successful businessmen in Russia. The Alfa Group that he built up has interests in oil, finance, real estate and even tea, but in April he cleared away the last obstacle to fulfilling his dream: to build a "Vodafone of the east."

Tim Gosling in Moscow
Tue, 25th May -- The huge pipeline of IPOs anticipated this year in Russia is set to shrink as issuers hit a wall built by investors refusing to pay the top dollar demanded. While this will greatly reduce the flow of issues, some companies will just have to swallow it.

Ben Aris in Moscow
Tue, 25th May -- The crisis cut the boom in car sales in Russia in half, but even in the depths of the meltdown international carmakers based in the country continued to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into new plants.