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Tai Adelaja

Tai Adelaja is a Nigerian-born Russian citizen with more than 15 years combined experience in news coverage and research. He holds a Master's degree with honors in Journalism from the Moscow State University and diplomas on industrial reporting from the University of Sofia. He worked 6 years for ABC News Intercontinental Inc. in Moscow as an Editorial Officer and later as a producer for the Associated Press Television News before moving on to NBC Universal Inc. as News Desk Editor. He also did a 2-year stint as a Business reporter for The Moscow Times.  He has contributed numerous articles on Russian business life to newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, MSNBC.com, and Africa Report. He writes for USA Today in addition to contributing regular reports on the Russian auto-industry to Edmunds.com.

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05/15/2012

Dreams of Leaps

Several economists have questioned the Kremlin's new ambitious plan to jumpstart economic growth over the next six years, with most describing it as flawed or fuzzy. In a raft of decrees signed last week, Russia's newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin laid out an ambitious plan to attract businesses, promote investment and spur economic growth. But economists who analyzed the president's ambitious economic agenda said Russia has neither the necessary preconditions to stimulate economic growth nor the wherewithal to accelerate productivity – both of which are crucial to the success of Putin’s plan.

05/14/2012

Logistical Nightmares

Despite the government's best efforts, Russian logistics services continue to be slow, bureaucratic and unpredictable, a new World Bank report has found. The quality of Russia's trade and transport related infrastructure is subpar even when compared to infrastructural facilities in other former Soviet states, according to the bank's Logistics Performance Index report published on Friday. Russia not only received declining scores in the survey's “ease of arranging competitively priced shipments to international markets” category, but also ranks low in the ability to track and trace such consignments or confirm whether shipments reach their destination.

05/10/2012

Migration Migraine

While Russia's newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin may be facing a myriad of complex issues, ranging from the brain drain to unfavorable demographics, he has, for the time being, zeroed in on fixing the country's broken immigration policy. In one of his sweeping executive orders issued on Monday, Putin said federal and regional authorities must introduce mandatory testing for migrant workers in subjects like the Russian language, Russian history and the basics of Russian legislation. Highly qualified foreign workers will be exempt from the tests, which Putin said must take off by November 2012 at the latest. Putin also instructed the Russian government to prepare draft laws that will toughen punishments for violating Russia’s immigration laws and submit them before December 2012.

05/08/2012

Putin it Pragmatically

Hours after he took the oath of office on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a raft of decrees sure to set him apart from his predecessor and project his image as an active, energetic and business-like leader. Putin, who has promised to continue the modernization and business-friendly policies of former President Dmitry Medvedev, spent the rest of his inauguration day approving an unwieldy list of economic and social policies. Part of the measures decreed by the once-again president would improve the country’s business climate, while others, like wage increases, could punch holes in the budget, analysts say.

05/07/2012

Russia’s Competitive Advantages

Despite the prevailing bleak economic outlook, there is a silver lining for investors willing to brave the odds to do business in Russia, a new report found. Russia continues to shine among the world’s high growth economies, despite a steady stream of bad economic news about the country's investment climate, according to KPMG’s Competitive Alternatives 2012 report released on Saturday. The report, which helps businesses make informed decisions on where their operation will have the best opportunity, found that Russian leaders may have indeed been hard at work to retain current investors while trying to attract new ones.

05/03/2012

Targeting Promises

With concerns mounting over Russia's budget shortfalls, the government has been trying to maneuver its way out of some extravagant election campaign promises made by President-elect Vladimir Putin. A major part of the government's effort is directed toward slashing entitlements and cutting social spending while increasing spending on defense and defense-related programs. In addition to pumping taxpayer money into the military-industrial complex, about a third of funds allocated to the federal targeted programs this year will be spent on the country's struggling space industry and the development of Siberia and the Far East, according to a priority list prepared by the Economic Development Ministry.

04/30/2012

Protecting Pension Rights

As workers around the world prepare to celebrate International Workers Day, their Russian peers may be about to lose one of the enduring gains of worker solidarity. The Russian government may gradually abolish a number of job categories deemed hazardous enough to merit retiring early, Health and Social Development Deputy Minister Alexander Safonov said on Friday. Under current Russian labor law, workers engaged in occupations that expose them to health hazards have the right to retire with a full pension at age 50 for women and 55 for men. Russians working as miners, lumberjacks, pilots, cosmonauts, as well as those in a dozen of other professions who are entitled to retire even earlier, could lose the privilege if the new measure is approved, analysts say.

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