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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
16 December 2003 20:41
Consumer prices forecast to rise 1%-1.2% in Dec
MOSCOW. Dec 16 (Interfax) - Russia will see inflation of 1%-1.2% in December, said Arkady Dvorkovich, a deputy economic development and trade minister. [RU ASIA EUROPE EEU EMRG ECI MCE RET] pr <>
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