After Long Dispute, a Russian Starbucks
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With the hiss of an espresso machine and a note in Russian explaining the meaning of tall, grande and venti, Starbucks opened its first coffee shop in Russia.
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The attack on the major Russian oil company, YUKOS, which led to the arrest of its chairman and CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his shares, and subsequently to his resignation, is a watershed event in post-communist Russian history.
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Starbucks Corp.  is opposing  Indian entrepreneur Shahnaz Husain's plans to start a chain of  coffee shops called Starstrucks, the Mint business paper  reported.
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MOSCOW (CP) - Mikhail Sagirov struggled to start up his business, a suburban Moscow health club, and thanks to five years of relative prosperity and order under President Vladimir Putin, he's finally got it going.
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A young, up-market coffee and sandwich chain has used a steady sales rise and promising economic growth in host countries Poland, Latvia and the Czech Republic to defend its policy of working at a loss to ...
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Competing against Starbucks is a tall order -- just ask Diedrich.
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Russia's state arms exporter has filed a  lawsuit against a businessman who said it was seeking to grab  private assets, the latest salvo in what analysts have said is  a turf war raging behind the scenes between Kremlin clans.
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Russian Internet enthusiasts are locked  in a tussle with an international body over a relic of the  Soviet past -- the .su domain name assigned to the country just  before the Soviet Union collapsed.
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Free and open debate has become a rarity  in Russia's media which is mostly controlled by the state or  business moguls.
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NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia  - After building a chain of restaurants selling pizza to the Siberians, Eric Shogren has a few tips for foreigners wanting to break into the booming Russian market.
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In what market watchers are calling a new battle between a Russian oligarch and the state, Russia&#39;s second largest mobile phone operator, VimpelCom, has been hit with a 4.4 billion ruble (US$157 million, euro118 million) back-tax claim for 2001, company
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British brewer Scottish and Newcastle said Tuesday it had submitted a detailed claim to an arbitration court to secure control of Russian joint venture BBH amid a bitter row with co-owner Carlsberg.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million (1.5 million pounds) to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.
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Starbucks agrees a wide-ranging accord with Ethiopia to promote its coffees, ending a long-running disagreement.
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The last major post-communist brewery is still in state hands for now. But an American rival looms large
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A state-run cafe has opened in Beijing&#39;s Forbidden City on the premises where Starbucks closed down earlier this year amid charges the US chain sullied the site, state media said.