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Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 05/14/08 - In Russia, houses are considered old and have exceeded their service life. Housing constructions are slow despite the reforms introduced in the 1990s. According to Washington Post, Russia’s actions included tariffs, de-monopolization, modernization and high levels of services. The Washington Post said that the Fradkov government was not pleased with the progress.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 05/12/08 - Food prices all over the world are skyrocketing and many people are going hungry. The Chicago Tribune quoting the World Bank said, “Food prices are soaring around the world- up 83 percent in the last three years.” The price of rice increased from $400 per ton to $1,000 per ton. That’s more than double of the original price. The Chicago Tribune quoted Robert Zoellick the President of World Bank saying that around 100 million people are pushed into poverty because of the food prices.

Austin, TX - (ZPRYME NEWS) – 05/12/08 - Last April 17-18, 2008, a conference was held for foreign and national investors. The prime issue of these investors was problems of land and housing in Ukraine. According to a Ukrainian website, “The Conference is remarkable for specific investment projects to be presented to the participants with the view to attract investments, including projects which involve the sale of investment-attractive land plots.”

Austin, TX (ZprymeNews) April 28, 2008 -- The transactions that involved Russian-based companies according to Ernest and Young Transaction Advisory Services 2007 on Mergers and Acquisitions in the CIS: Market Overview, reached $71 billion in 2006 which includes $11.4 billion of foreign acquisitions made by Russian-based companies. These figures show that acquisitions grew by more than 41 percent since 2005. The largest acquisitions involved metals and mining which overtook that of the oil and gas industries. Other sectors which showed active participations were the financial services, the media, and the retail sector.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/08/08 - The education system of Russia, which was once a system which reflected the highly centralized government structure of the Russian government and the Marxist-Leninist ideology that it wants to inculcate among its citizens, went through a revolutionary reform in the system to attain the kind of education system that it has today.