Within a decade, Russia could be confronted with an acute manpower crisis
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posted by zaina19 on March, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/13/2007 12:45 AM Labor Shortage Puts Russian Economy at Risk By Natalya Alyakrinskaya The Moscow News Within a decade, Russia could be confronted with an acute manpower crisis Russian: Работа становится волком Within the next few years, Russia may be facing a serious crisis on its labor markets. According to the Health and Social Development Ministry, by 2010, the country's workforce will fall by almost 9 million, from 74.5 million to 65.5 million. This scenario sounds even more disastrous when we factor in that Russia is losing over 700,000 working-age people every year, due primarily to high mortality and low birth rates. Add to this the low level of labor mobility and labor flexibility, poor work ethics in certain parts of the country, and the poor condition of employee vocational and training systems, and the picture gets darker. The concept of labor market development for 2007-10, presented three weeks ago by Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov, is supposed to rectify the situation. However, at ... >> full
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Did he jump or was he pushed? Russian journalists fear worst after another death
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/13/2007 1:10 AM Did he jump or was he pushed? Russian journalists fear worst after another death Safety fears heightened by mystery plunge of man known for damaging scoops Tom Parfitt and Luke Harding in Moscow Saturday March 10, 2007 Guardian It's a setting repeated a thousand times over in the great sprawl of sagging apartment blocks that make up Moscow's suburbs. Entrance number two at 9 Nizhegorodskaya Street looks out on to a courtyard where children play on swings and a climbing frame, still encrusted with snow. Only up close do you see the pile of carnations lying on a bench by the door. And only then do you look up to the gaping window between the fourth and fifth floors from which Ivan Safronov, 51, either jumped or was pushed on March 2. Safronov's death lacks the grim evidence of assassination that ended the life of Anna Politkovskaya. This week doctors said Safronov's corpse - discovered on the doorstep at 4pm - showed no signs of ... >> full
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Just Trailblazers On Road to Independence
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/13/2007 2:30 AM Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Just Trailblazers On Road to Independence By Matthew Collin Ever wondered who was behind the civil wars in the Caucasus in the early 1990s? It seems that Satan was the mastermind, or at least according to the dapper-looking gent who approached me at an outdoor cafe in Abkhazia last week. I must admit that I started to doubt his judgment a little when he went on to say that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was a robot programmed by his predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze, to carry on his evil works. Nevertheless, the landscape of Abkhazia, the Black Sea region that has been trying to break away from Georgia since the war of the early 1990s, looks like it’s been through hell. Many homes are still abandoned after a quarter of a million Georgians fled the fighting. Buildings are pockmarked by rocket fire or smashed to rubble. The capital, Sukhumi, was a rather grand resort in Soviet times, but even ... >> full
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Friends doubt Russian writer killed himself
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/15/2007 8:58 AM New mysterious death in nation of stilled voices Friends doubt Russian writer killed himself By Alex Rodriguez Tribune foreign correspondent Published March 15, 2007 MOSCOW -- As Anastasia Yerokhina shared a smoke with her friend on the balcony of her eighth-floor apartment, a loud thud drew their gaze to the building next door. On the pavement lay the broken body of Russian journalist Ivan Safronov. Oranges he had bought at a Moscow market on his way home were scattered on the asphalt. Face down with his jacket and sweater hitched up to his armpits, Safronov slowly moved one of his legs, Yerokhina said, then lay still. How and why Safronov died is a mystery that has gripped Moscow since the 51-year-old military affairs reporter plunged from a fifth-floor staircase window March 2. His colleagues remain convinced that he had no reason to commit suicide. They want authorities to pursue another scenario they believe may be more plausible in today's Russia, where Kremlin persecution of journalists ... >> full
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COMMENTARY: What’s Up with Russia?
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/15/2007 12:34 PM March 14, 2007 COMMENTARY: What’s Up with Russia? By Tom Proebsting Special to HNN President Ronald Reagan, in a historic speech in Berlin in 1987 appealed to then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with his famous line, “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The Berlin Wall came down. The gates were opened. East and West Germany reunited, Eastern Europe was set free from Communism, and the Soviet Union lost 14 states. Under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, Russia sought Democratic reforms and life there looked rosy. But in 1994 the autonomous Russian republic of Chechnya clamored so loudly and persistently for independence and sovereignty that Yeltsin, fearful of losing most of his other resource-rich republics, made an example of it. Russia sent its army into the tiny republic and leveled its capital, Grozny. But after two years, the Chechens turned the mighty Russian army away, its tail between its legs. The press hounded the president over the excessive use ... >> full
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