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U.S. Companies Lose Billions of Dollars Annually to Russian Piracy

Created: 23.02.2005 13:37 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:47 MSK

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The losses incurred by U.S. software, film, and music companies as a result of pirated materials distributed in Russia grossed at $1.7 million last year, Russia’s Culture and Mass Communication Minister has announced.

With Russia’s record of intellectual property rights violations one of the worst in the world, on Tuesday Culture Minister Alexander Sokolov signed a cooperation agreement with a number of social organizations working towards protecting intellectual property rights.

“In the sphere of intellectual property rights we are dealing with a well thought-out system of evading the law,” Russia’s RBC news agency quoted Sokolov as saying after the signing.

He called for social organizations to join efforts to fight piracy, and noted a vacuum in legislation protecting intellectual property.

Meanwhile, according to the firm Macrovision, losses by international DVD producers alone from Russian piracy were as much as $4 billion.

Russia is among the 15 countries negatively affecting U.S.-based intellectual property, according to a report by U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick. Improving its intellectual property record is one of the issues linked to Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization.


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Russia Delays Total-Novatek Deal Until Russian Gas Firm’s Planned IPO

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Igor Artemyev, the head of Russia’s Anti-Monopoly Service, said on Tuesday, May 24, that he would delay the approval of a deal between France’s Total oil and gas giant and Russia’s independent gas firm Novatek until after Novatek’s planned initial share placement (IPO). Total has been trying to buy 25 percent of Novatek’s shares since last year.

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Unsafe and Ignorant, Or How Russians Do Sex

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Russians would rather deal with those pesky STDs than with those pesky condoms and those pesky STD tests. Lacking clear and convincing information on safe sex, many prefer to fall back on contraception methods that date back to the Dawn of Time but haven’t been improved since then. As a result, many are in for unpleasant surprises.

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MIKHAIL BERGER

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U.S. Report on Iraqi Oil Is Conjectures and Lies — Russian Trader

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Following a U.S. Senate Committee’s allegations that Russian officials were involved in an illegal oil deal with Saddam Hussein as part of the oil for food program, many of those implicated denied the accusations. Sergei Isakov of the Russian Engineering Co., a firm that was also mentioned in the report, says that his firm was the one getting all that extra oil.

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FYODOR LUKYANOV

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Uzbekistan: Experimenting With a Spring Mechanism

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The current catastrophe in Central Asia � from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan � is only the result of an experiment gone wrong, when Russia and other world powers left the region to its own devices. Now in the throes of violence and chaos, the region is exhibiting a spring mechanism: the harsher the dictatorship, the more chaos and bloodshed.

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Russian Street Opposition Full of Drive, Lacks Road Map

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With the success of the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, it’s no wonder that Russia’s liberal opposition, having failed to get into parliament in the 2003 elections, is pinning its hopes on ever more frequent street protests. But whether they are Kremlin spawns or independent youth groups supporting Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a major piece for any successful revolution seems to be lacking.

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An Unsanctioned Focus on AIDS

FrontAIDS, an activist organization, rallied against the government’s position on AIDS on May 14. As part of an unauthorized rally, dozens of FrontAIDS activists gathered in front of the Health Ministry, chained themselves to the building, and attempted to block off traffic on nearby Neglinnaya Street � all to draw attention to the AIDS issue.





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