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Starting in 2004, Russian companies selling goods and services will not have to pay the five-percent sales tax. Companies plan to take advantage of this tax break in a variety of different ways.
Professor Golant accidentally invented a device capable of measuring a huge range of temperatures. It can be used virtually anywhere, from inside a nuclear reactor to outside a spaceship.
A bad Russian tradition to sharply lift all prices in January will be preserved in the year of presidential elections. Even tax reforms cannot overcome this.
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Igor Shuvalov, the President`s deputy chief of staff
Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin
Evgeni Yasin, Academic Director of the Higher School of Economics
13 November 2003 21:47
Russia, Europe to discuss energy system integration
MOSCOW. Nov 13 (Interfax) - A delegation from national grid operator Unified Energy System of Russia, led by its CEO Anatoly Chubais, will take part in the "Electricity Market from Lisbon to Vladivostok" conference, which starts in Brussels on Thursday. Participants will discuss the practical implementation of a project on the integration of energy systems in the CIS and Baltic EURELECTRIC, the Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE) and the Electric Power Council (EPC) of the CIS organized the conference, UES reported. The project to integrate CIS and European systems began in March 2002. Chubais, who also heads the EPC of the CIS, met with the states with European systems. presidents of EURELECTRIC and UCTE on various occasions in 2002-2003 to discuss expanding cooperation. [RU ASIA EUROPE EEU EMRG ENR] me
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