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BusinessLogistics

With Most Efficient Logistics, Wildberries Becomes Russia’s Biggest Web Retailer

Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, is run by a mother of four who founded her company in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave from her job as an English teacher.

August 30, 2018
GovernmentBusinessFuel

Oil-Services Investors Unmoved by Latest US Sanctions on Russia

Investors of the world’s biggest oil-servicer providers are so far looking past the most punitive round of U.S. sanctions on Russia.

April 9, 2018
Government

Most Moscow Residents Support Protest by Truckers, Survey Says

Moscow residents are broadly supportive of protests by longhaul truckers over a new toll system in Russia, the Levada Center said.

December 11, 2015
Government

In Russia, a Protest Against Putin Rises From an Unlikely Source: Truckers

STUPINO, Russia — Like most Russians, the truck drivers parked up at the Doughnuts roadside cafeteria south of Moscow care little for opposition politics, but a new government policy has made them rethink their attitudes toward Vladimir Putin.

December 8, 2015