Russian Civilisation
Worksheets - 5 pages - Management
How to deal with Russia? It is the major issue for French companies which are trying to expand in this country. How to understand its way of doing business, how to behave with the Russian businessmen? To be able to create a real commercial link with Russia today, it's necessary...
Global marketing: Russian food market
Market study - 10 pages - Foreign markets
The object of this case study is to develop a market strategy that could be used by firms dealing with Russian food market, namely concerning the waffle market. Lots of marketing surveys of waffle consumption in Russia has been done, dealing with different investing potential...
The Russian business culture
Essay - 7 pages - Foreign markets
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia emerged as a nation. A new constitution was adopted in 1993, representing the end of communism. Russia has now a federation style government with a market economy (“CIA”, The World FactBook: Russia, online)....
Labor and the Russian Revolution
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The February and October Revolutions of 1917 were based, in large part, on Marxist visions of class struggle and working class power. Despite not being an industrial power, the Russian working class was significant. Benjamin Nathans sums up the social circumstances of Russia in the late...
Human smuggling in Russia and Central Asia
Essay - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The UN definition of "trafficking", under the terms of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (supplementing the 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime), Article 3(a) states: 'Trafficking in persons' shall mean...
Orcanta in Russia
Case study - 9 pages - International marketing
Russia is one of the largest markets in the world. As the western culture slowly infiltrated the eastern mentality many young people began adopting western culture and appearances. In the past few years Russia has not only began to accept western ideas and fashion, but has developed...
How Peter the Great's window to the West empowered Russia
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
It was during Peter the Great's reign that Russia emerged as a prevailing European power. This advancement of Russia into European affairs would be accredited to Peter's introduction of Western technological, cultural, military and political ideas and customs. Peter's changes would...
In what extent and how did the making of foreign economic policy changed in the Post-Communist Russia?
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The end of the year 1991 signaled an unprecedented change in the history of Russia. The collapse of the USSR was not only the collapse of one régime for the establishment of another one. The beginning of the 1990s was indeed the end of an era for Russia, as well as for the whole...
Russian and French Economies
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
Russia is the biggest country in the world and is ranked 7th for its population with 143 million of inhabitants. The country is today one of the 10th most important economy in the world. In fact, Russia is situated at the 14th world rank concerning its total GDP for 2005 with...
Market research firms in Russia: a comparative analysis for the benefit of foreign companies willing to set up there
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
If an international company wants to settle in Russia, it should choose a market research firm to carry out a consumer research study in order to identify market performance and dynamics, solve marketing and sales problems and point out growth opportunities. Such firms operating on the...
Is Russian political culture a serious obstacle to democratization?
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
From the end of the Cold War to nowadays, Russia has endeavored to reform itself so as to exit from a situation of crises. Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to give a new start to the economy of the Soviet Union, to reform its plethoric administration and take steps towards a more democratic,...
Poverty in Russia
Essay - 15 pages - Economy general
Russia is the biggest country in the world and is also today one of the 10th most important economy in the world. In fact, Russia is situated at the 14th world rank concerning its total GDP for 2005 with approximately 763 000 million $, and at the 10th world rank concerning its PPP...
Putin's Russia
Dissertation - 7 pages - Political science
As a way of introducing our subject, and in an effort to make it more dynamic, I chose to start writing an article which is essential to provide views of Putin's Russia as I interpret it from local and foreign press. After the fall of communism in the early 1990's, Russia...
Globalization in Russia: The challenge of the transition to the world economy
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
Fifteen years ago, the Soviet Union was a socialist authoritative country, tightly isolated from capitalist countries. Nowadays, its direct heir, Russia, is one of the most quickly growing markets of the world, strongly open on the global economy. During the 1990s, Russia underwent...
Heineken in Russia
Case study - 8 pages - International marketing
Heineken is the first European Brewer and one of the first brewers in the world. Also, to give a better idea of the situation of the company, let's state some figures. In 2005, net profit was 761 million €, with sales above 10 billion € and a total beer volume of almost 120 million...
Anna Politkovskaya: A woman, journalist and human rights activist in contemporary Russia
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
am a pariah”. This is how Anna Politkovskaya defines herself in the beginning of a posthumous article published by The Guardian on October 14th, 2006. Seven days before, on October 7th, around 5 pm, she was murdered in her flat in still non-clarified circumstances. Her death occurred while...
The Significance of Peter I in the Russian History
Essay - 2 pages - Medieval history
It is acknowledged that under the rule of Peter I Russia have turned itself into a powerful nation. By what is a powerful nation? If we would generalize the knowledge we have about the different powerful states in history, we would probably discover that the powerful state should satisfy...
Globalisation in Russia: The challenge of the transition to the world economy
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
Fifteen years ago, the Soviet Union was a socialist authoritative country, tightly isolated from capitalist countries. Nowadays, its direct heir, Russia, is one of the quickest growing markets of the world that is strongly open on the global economy. During the 1990s, Russia...
The Search for Russian National Identity and Coherent Foreign Policy: Development and Change in Foreign Relations under Yeltsin and Putin
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
Traditionally, Russia has been a geographical concept. Its external borders have defined its identity and the strengthes or weaknesses of its leaders and internal organization have determined its external borders. Even its geography is subordinate to the ability of its leaders to secure...
The Cold War, an exception in the historical Russian-American relationship ?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Will the Cold War, in future be seen as an exception in the history of Russian-American relationship including the contemporary period (1992-2004) ? The Cold War lasted for nearly fifty years and has contributed to shape the whole world to the same extent that the two world wars have done, except...
The dynamics of the relations between the European Unions and Russia
Essay - 11 pages - European union
With the EU enlargement approaching rapidly, an issue that has been much under discussion is the relationship between the union and Russia following the accession of the former Soviet states. Due to the interdependence that exists between the two parties, a healthy future relationship is...
To what extent Russia's foreign policy differs from the Soviet Union's ?
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
That's why Russia had to define a new foreign policy, since its national identity, its national interests and its domestic politics on which foreign policy is based had been modified. The main visible change is a normalisation of relations with the other countries which comes from the...
What are the options of the Russian foreign policy, a decade after the collapse of the USSR ?
Essay - 2 pages - International relations
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union ten years ago, Russia has been in a state of confusion about its relations with the outside world, unsure of what direction to face in foreign affairs. Following fifty years of making global headlines with every single foreign policy move,...
The Russian Revolution : The Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Kronstadt is a naval fortress, built in 1703 by the tsar Peter the Great, on the Kutlin island in the Gulf of Finland, 30 kilometres in the west of Saint Petersburg (which in the early days of the 20th Century was named Petrograd, and then later renamed Leningrad, and is now Saint Petersburg...
The Donbass, How Vladimir Putin, sower of instability, became surrounded by it
Case study - 9 pages - International relations
Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 was motivated by a fear of NATO's expansion and Mr Putin's pursuit of the Eurasian Economic Union, as an imagined counterweight to the European Union. The conflict started following the ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. During his...
The United States and the World: A New World Order?
Course material - 7 pages - Political science
We remember George Bush's optimism in 1990: he had announced "A New World Order", resting on the promotion of liberal democracy and free enterprise everywhere, resting on the UN (at last again effective due to the end of the Cold War) and on American benevolent hegemony. One could have the...
Policy brief: The future of the dollar
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - International economy
Economic sanctions have frozen a large part of Russia's $630 billion in foreign reserves. Cutting Russia out of the global financial system raises questions about the future of the dollar as the reserve currency. Russia will likely strengthen its relations with China and...
To What Extent Have the United States and Europe Grown Closer or Further Apart After September 11?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
September 11, 2001 appears to be a major turning point in the American management of foreign affairs. Europe, as a major partner and ally, is also impacted by this attack. The objective of our analysis will be to determine the consequences of these. Moreover, the exponential rise in power of...
Global Decline of Secularization
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
The document discusses the erosion of secularization worldwide, citing examples from Turkey, Afghanistan, and Russia, where religious influence is increasingly intertwined with politics and state power.
French Military Ports Adaptation to Naval Warfare
Text commentary - 7 pages - Modern history
Théophile Aube's 1882 article discusses adapting French military ports to strategic upheavals in naval warfare, referencing great powers' models like Germany, Russia, and the UK.
