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...Geely and BYD Auto. While China's overall share of Russia's foreign-car market is relatively small - just 3% in mid-2007 - sales jumped 472% in the first half of the year and are projected to double in 2008 to between 100,000 and 150,000 units, says Moscow-based Ernst & Young auto analyst Ivan Bonchev. "The Russian market is growing extremely fast, with heavy demand for cars, which domestic makers far from satisfy," says Great Wall Motor president Wang Fengying...
...while the training wheels are still attached. Russia is a "guinea-pig market," says Bonchev. That doesn't mean it's insignificant. Russia's growing middle class provides a big pool of would-be car owners. Viktor Semyonov, deputy industry director at the Ministry of Industry and Energy in Moscow, says the number of cars sold in Russia topped 2 million in 2006 - a 20% increase - and was up 28% in the first half of 2007. If growth rates continue, Russia could rank fifth in the world in sales by 2010, overtaking England, France and Italy, Bonchev says...
...HANKS Well, I remember the invasion. I remember President Carter coming out, and there was a big dramatic thing on TV: the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan--we were going to cancel the Olympics, and we weren't going to go to Moscow in 1980. I didn't realize what the covert action of the CIA had done, and whatnot...
...consulted hundreds of Mbeki's friends and acquaintances, studied thousands of documents and interviewed the President himself six times. His book traces Mbeki's life from his birth in 1942 as the son of communist pioneers in the Transkei, through his 28 years in exile in London and Moscow, to his two terms in office. It also illuminates the strange mix of economic liberalism and headstrong ideology that permeates the leadership of postapartheid South Africa...
...been a choreographed farce from beginning to end.' GARRY KASPAROV, former chess champion, on court proceedings after he was sentenced to five days in jail in Moscow. Kasparov had been arrested after attempting to lead an unauthorized march against Russian President Vladimir Putin...