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WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. SPR and Progresstech LTD of Moscow, Russia, today announced they have signed an agreement to enter a joint venture. The new company will be known as Spirit-Progresstech LLC. Initial work to be performed is engineering consulting services. The Spirit-Progresstech LLC Branch Office will be located in Moscow.
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Rubles only All payments in Russia are officially made in rubles. However, in many shops catering to tourists as well as in companies selling major items (such as cars, real estate and computers) you may find the prices indicated in USD or Euro (for legal reasons called "conditional units"/"abstract units" - "у.е.", which stands for "уСЛОВные едиНИцы"). This became common after the collapse of the USSR. Even for these shops... you can pay only in rubles, and exchange rate can be both an official rate set by Central Bank, and arbitrary which is usually higher - posted in small font, if at all.
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Sibintertelecom is a GSM-900/1800 mobile phone operator in two regions of Russia with mobile penetration at around 33%(1) and a total population of 1.16 million (1.08 million in the Chita region and 72 thousand in the Aginsk-Buryatsk Autonomous District). The company's subscriber base was 372.1 thousand as of November 30, 2005.
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IRVING, Texas, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. CRR announced that it will host activities to recognize the grand opening of its new proppant production facility in Kopeysk, Russia. The plant has recently completed the start-up process and should reach full design capacity of 100 million pounds per year in the near future. It will produce CARBO's intermediate strength and lightweight proppants: CARBOProp(R) and CARBOLite(R). Marketing of CARBO products and services in Russia are coordinated through the company's sales office in Moscow.
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Yandex is a leading Internet portal and search engine in Russia with approximately 6 million unique visitors per day. In addition to search, the company provides users with other specialized services including blog hosting, photo and email hosting, news aggregation service, maps, a comparison shopping system, an online payment system and social networking. Yandex ... supports Yandex.WiFi, the largest free hotspot network in Russia. To find out more about Yandex, please visit: http://company.yandex.com/ .
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HONG KONG, Aug. 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Score One Inc. SREA announced today that the Company intends to participate in the 1st Russia-China Automobile Forum which is to be held in Beijing in late October this year. Government officials in automobile industry and imports and exports departments, authoritative experts and over 300 Russia distributors and agents including the top ten will be invited to take part in the forum.
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