Russian Economy General News: #1

Hannibal Barca wrote:It's about reaching a threshold or loosing a threshold in terms of size, growth and trade, Austin.
Russia and India doesn't reach this level yet, Russia actually might never reach given her population.
USA are about to loose theirs.
Interesting times ahead.

sepheronx wrote:

For now, Russia's main competition will end up being Germany, with the aid of France and maybe Germany itself (Germany will sell anything it seems).  Majority of its products excluding automotive is a direct competitor.  MaRussia was created to be a competitor to Jag, Corvette, Lamb, ect.  But still not close enough to being there yet.  But on the heavy industrial scale, I would say it is more about a direct competitor (They do build automated CNC and other machines, but only really sold in CIS countries as of right now).  Coming years will be interesting.

China is a direct competitor to USA, as its population can sustain itself if trade war did happen between the two (China has the ability to produce on their own since majority of their manufacturing can still churn out what they want and they still have over a billion pop to purchase said goods.  As well, a lot of control from central gov, so any blow could be minimal.

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flamming_python wrote:Honestly amazes me how many experts we have on processor architectures here and on mp.net

Hell I studied it, or at least computer architecture in general, a semester's worth - and I still don't understand more than half of what you guys are yammering on about all the time.

I work in the field were we run various servers for SQL operations and virtualization, along with a massive line of networking (what I mostly deal with). I am learning some of this stuff every day. When my father worked for the US airforce back in the 80's, they used RISC processors for everything (and still do). So he would always explain to me the difference. When he gets too technical, it becomes confusing. Biggest difference between the two is that RISC processors are specialized processors to run 1 specific task, and will not move onto another till previous is done. They do not run instruction sets (well, they can but usually dont have then) thus they are all built around to do a specific task. Hence why you have MIPS, SPARC, ARM, PowerPC, ect. They run very optemized instructions and have better memory management. CISC on the other hand can do multiple tasks at once, of all types, and has various instruction sets for various tasks. They can handle both complex and not so complex jobs. But cannot do it nearly as efficient. All comes down to architecture. Hence why you see lower powered and lower speed RISC stomp a new CISC in number crunching but a CISC stomp the RISC in other categories. They have their ups and downs. I dont know much about the Intel i960 but the competitor Elbrus 2C+ uses both CISC (the dual core itself is its Elbrus S processors (with some instruction sets that are open source since AMD's and Intels copywrite protection is no longer valid) and 4 RISC DSP (Digital Signal Processors) in the mix to handle other tasks individually. Great for powerful radar systems and comm systems, but maybe not so much in other tasks. As for the other processors like MIPS, ect. I dont know too much about them as they are pretty rare.

All that said, MCST tries to keep it all legit (Rather than Chinas semiconductor industries), in hopes their products will sell outside of CIS, but it isnt happening it seems. While AMD and Intel became quite powerful by either copying from others or each other, bypassing the laws on copywrite. Very hard to find an honest, large company these days.

And dont worry Python, im still learning day by day about architecture designs and understanding. Its a never ending battle.

Medvedev Proposes Officials Return to State Company Boards
Ria Novosti

VLADIVOSTOK, January 27. /ITAR-TASS/. Ruble decline is explained by the ongoing macroeconomic processes in the world, the chairwoman of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) Elvira Nabiullina said in the Pozner talk show on Channel One.

“It is not ruble weakening but dollar and euro growth versus all currencies of the emerging markets,” believes Nabiullina. “The U.S. is now gathering stable growth pace. Capital redistribution and outflow from emerging markets are underway.” Further ruble dynamics depend on Russian and global economic growth, she added.

“Our ruble is a market currency, and its price is not fixed administratively. Now the ruble’s price is being formed by market factors,” Nabiullina said.

Asked what currency Russian people should choose to make their savings, Nabiullina cited “the golden rule of the economy: save up in the currency you use to buy”.

She added the CBR’s task is to “prevent sharp ruble fluctuations, giving enterprises and people time to adopt to new conditions.” Last year alone $27.5 billion was spent for this purpose.

According to Nabiullina, there were signs the ruble may strengthen, like Russia’s being one of the few countries with a trade surplus.

Austin wrote:CBR head: Ruble falls on dollar, euro growth versus all EM currencies

http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/716466

VLADIVOSTOK, January 27. /ITAR-TASS/. Ruble decline is explained by the ongoing macroeconomic processes in the world, the chairwoman of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) Elvira Nabiullina said in the Pozner talk show on Channel One.

“It is not ruble weakening but dollar and euro growth versus all currencies of the emerging markets,” believes Nabiullina. “The U.S. is now gathering stable growth pace. Capital redistribution and outflow from emerging markets are underway.” Further ruble dynamics depend on Russian and global economic growth, she added.

“Our ruble is a market currency, and its price is not fixed administratively. Now the ruble’s price is being formed by market factors,” Nabiullina said.

Asked what currency Russian people should choose to make their savings, Nabiullina cited “the golden rule of the economy: save up in the currency you use to buy”.

She added the CBR’s task is to “prevent sharp ruble fluctuations, giving enterprises and people time to adopt to new conditions.” Last year alone $27.5 billion was spent for this purpose.

According to Nabiullina, there were signs the ruble may strengthen, like Russia’s being one of the few countries with a trade surplus.

Viktor wrote:
Much has been done during 2013, I hope the pace will continue and grow  

Statistics: Production of cement in Russia in 2013. increased by 7.8% - to 66.4 million tons

83 medical facilities finished in 2013

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130 kindergardens finished in 2013

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Construction of Russian seaports

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199 sports facilities

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New agricultural enterprises (only the biggest ones)

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200 medium and large new productions (51 launched with the participation of foreign investors, 134 built "from scratch")

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