december
05-07-2007, 06:29 PM
It looks like the Illuminati propaganda adopted new tactics... :D
For years they used to tell people in UK and america that all Russian people are doing is drinking vodka and that they have no freedoms and that the KGB runs the whole country of course...
Well, now they decided to change the tune and begin to tell the British people that they should be afraid of Russia because Russia's economy is booming...
:D
You can find a VERY SCARY acticle on the BBC site with this title:
Russians love Putin's economic might; in the West many are scared
Russia's economic might: spooky or soothing?
The Russians are displaying their wealth with pride, whether on the streets of Moscow or on the global geopolitical arena.
Retail sales in the country soared 13% last year, well ahead of the rest of Europe.
And almost half the Russian people believe it important to be fashionably dressed, according to a recent Wall Street Journal survey.
But unlike many fashion victims in the West, Russia's elite can really afford to strut.
Last year, the number of so-called "high net worth individuals" - people whose spending power exceeds $1bn (£500m) - in Russia rose 15.5% - compared with an 8% swelling in their number globally, according to the Merrill Lynch and CapGemini World Wealth Report.
Similarly, President Vladimir Putin's confident swagger on the international stage is that of a man who has delivered what his people want: stability, prosperity and national pride.
Regional growth
."There's been a fantastic transfer of wealth to Russia," observes Accenture energy analyst, Mark Spelman.
In just four years, Russia's GDP has almost trebled, from $345bn in 2002 to $984bn in 2006, and the economy is now growing at almost 7% per year - up from less than 5% four years ago.
Inflation, meanwhile, has slipped from almost 16% in 2002 to single-digit figures.
Exports have trebled - largely thanks to metals, oil and gas - to about $300bn, by far outpacing import growth. This has enabled Russia to pump up its foreign cash reserves.
In 2002, the reserves stood at $44bn. By 2006, they had ballooned to more than $295bn.
Hence, as far as the Russian people is concerned, it seems President Putin can do nothing wrong. "Putin has the highest [voter] approval rating of anyone in the world," says Mr Spelman.
"Everyone's focussing on the fact that there are more billionaires in Moscow than there are in London, but what we're actually also seeing is that the disposable income of skilled people in Russia is going up.
"You see a lot of infrastructure, a lot of housing, shopping malls. The commodity boom is now percolating beyond Moscow."
Agrees Global Insight Russia analyst Natalia Leshchenko: "Living standards are slowly beginning to improve, also for the poorest, and that's why Putin is popular."
READ MORE -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6265068.stm
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov rising to Mountain Psekhako by a new cable railroad, while visiting the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort in Sochi, on the Russian Black Sea coast.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the foreground, visiting a tourist center at the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort in Sochi, on the Russian Black Sea coast.
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The Watercolor Train is a mobile art gallery in the Moscow metro. It runs from the Partizanskaya station to Park Pobedy on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
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Its five double-compartment cars present 35 paintings – all from the brush of Sergei Andriyaka, one of Russia’s foremost artists, and students at his School of Watercolors in Moscow.
The train makes daily trips between noon and 3 p.m.
NOW GET MORE "NEWS" FROM BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk
:)
For years they used to tell people in UK and america that all Russian people are doing is drinking vodka and that they have no freedoms and that the KGB runs the whole country of course...
Well, now they decided to change the tune and begin to tell the British people that they should be afraid of Russia because Russia's economy is booming...
:D
You can find a VERY SCARY acticle on the BBC site with this title:
Russians love Putin's economic might; in the West many are scared
Russia's economic might: spooky or soothing?
The Russians are displaying their wealth with pride, whether on the streets of Moscow or on the global geopolitical arena.
Retail sales in the country soared 13% last year, well ahead of the rest of Europe.
And almost half the Russian people believe it important to be fashionably dressed, according to a recent Wall Street Journal survey.
But unlike many fashion victims in the West, Russia's elite can really afford to strut.
Last year, the number of so-called "high net worth individuals" - people whose spending power exceeds $1bn (£500m) - in Russia rose 15.5% - compared with an 8% swelling in their number globally, according to the Merrill Lynch and CapGemini World Wealth Report.
Similarly, President Vladimir Putin's confident swagger on the international stage is that of a man who has delivered what his people want: stability, prosperity and national pride.
Regional growth
."There's been a fantastic transfer of wealth to Russia," observes Accenture energy analyst, Mark Spelman.
In just four years, Russia's GDP has almost trebled, from $345bn in 2002 to $984bn in 2006, and the economy is now growing at almost 7% per year - up from less than 5% four years ago.
Inflation, meanwhile, has slipped from almost 16% in 2002 to single-digit figures.
Exports have trebled - largely thanks to metals, oil and gas - to about $300bn, by far outpacing import growth. This has enabled Russia to pump up its foreign cash reserves.
In 2002, the reserves stood at $44bn. By 2006, they had ballooned to more than $295bn.
Hence, as far as the Russian people is concerned, it seems President Putin can do nothing wrong. "Putin has the highest [voter] approval rating of anyone in the world," says Mr Spelman.
"Everyone's focussing on the fact that there are more billionaires in Moscow than there are in London, but what we're actually also seeing is that the disposable income of skilled people in Russia is going up.
"You see a lot of infrastructure, a lot of housing, shopping malls. The commodity boom is now percolating beyond Moscow."
Agrees Global Insight Russia analyst Natalia Leshchenko: "Living standards are slowly beginning to improve, also for the poorest, and that's why Putin is popular."
READ MORE -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6265068.stm
http://img.rian.ru/images/6105/81/61058141.jpg
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov rising to Mountain Psekhako by a new cable railroad, while visiting the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort in Sochi, on the Russian Black Sea coast.
http://img.rian.ru/images/6105/82/61058293.jpg
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the foreground, visiting a tourist center at the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort in Sochi, on the Russian Black Sea coast.
http://img.rian.ru/images/6676/09/66760957.jpg
The Watercolor Train is a mobile art gallery in the Moscow metro. It runs from the Partizanskaya station to Park Pobedy on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
http://img.rian.ru/images/6676/09/66760976.jpg
http://img.rian.ru/images/6676/10/66761003.jpg
Its five double-compartment cars present 35 paintings – all from the brush of Sergei Andriyaka, one of Russia’s foremost artists, and students at his School of Watercolors in Moscow.
The train makes daily trips between noon and 3 p.m.
NOW GET MORE "NEWS" FROM BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk
:)