Guide to Business Information on Russia, the NIS and the Baltic States


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This guide is an introduction to English language sources, in electronic and print form, dealing with business issues in Russia, the NIS and the Baltic States. It gives evaluative descriptions and costs of all listed sources, concentrating on recent sources. Sources of information on some of these countries can be difficult to locate, and the author gives guidance on how to go about finding them. Contents: Under each country, information sources are grouped in broad categories: Overview (sources designed to answer general, exploratory, country and regional questions, e.g. population, politics, how to do business etc); Current developments (e.g. recent changes in tax and other laws, trends in foreign direct investment, latest project tenders); Companies and contacts; Industries and services; Legislation; Organisations (a listing of agencies and bodies able to provide assistance, information and data to business people).




Guide to Business Info on Russia, the NIS, and the Baltic States


Book Description

This guide is an introduction to English-language sources, in electronic and conventional print forms, dealing with Russia/NIS/Baltic states business issues. It provides evaluative descriptions and costs of all listed sources, and concentrates on recent sources. Sources in respect of some of these countries can be very difficult to locate, and the author provides guidance on how to go about finding them. Contents: Under each country, information sources are grouped in broad categories: Overview (sources designed to answer general, exploratory, country and regional questions; eg. population, politics, how to do business, etc); Current developments (eg. recent changes in tax and other laws, trends in foreign direct investment, latest project tenders); Companies and contacts; Industries and services; Legislation; Organisations (a listing of agencies able to provide assistance, information and business data); Index. The countries covered are: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Central Asia and Transcaucasia; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyztan; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation; Ukraine; Uzbekistan.







Business America


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Includes articles on international business opportunities.




Commerce Annual Report


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Social Capital as a Resource for Migrant Entrepreneurship


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In her explorative study that is based on data from 62 qualitative interviews, Elena Sommer examines the use of social capital for entrepreneurial activities of self-employed migrants from the former Soviet Union in Germany. She analyses what type of social capital is used by migrants as a resource for the formation and development of small businesses and how entrepreneurial social networks of migrants change over time. The study illustrates that the use of business-related social relationships of the interviewed self-employed depends on the company's market strategy as well as on access to relevant social networks.




Building a Diaspora


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The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their “good reasons” to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.