ENVIRONMENT AND AESTHETICS The Delhi Metro has won awards for environmentally friendly practices from organisations including theUnited Nations‚RINA‚ and theInternational Organization forStandardization‚ becoming the second metro in the world‚ after theNew York City Subway‚ to beISO 14001certified for environmentally friendly construction. Most of the Metro stations on the Blue Lineconductrainwater harvestingas an environmental protection measure. It is also the first railway project in the world
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Modern Russia: Overview Russia faced enormous problems in the 1990s. After 70 years of communism‚ with its planned economy and controlled currency‚ Russia was ill-equipped for a rapid conversion to capitalism. Factories were in poor repair and inefficient‚ and their consumer products were shoddy. Managers did not have the know-how to function in a market economy‚ nor were workers prepared for the uncertainties of the marketplace. The transportation and delivery system for the goods they produced
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globalization in Globalization in Russia As this world we live in continues to turn‚ many sovereign states are challenged with the pursuit of globalization‚ and for some‚ this challenge is not so easy. Russia‚ for example‚ is a country that has overcome the communist rule of the Bolsheviks and a period of stagnation under Joseph Stalin. Surely‚ globalization is within Russia’s best interest‚ but after a history of neglect and punishment from the global world‚ Russia has struggled to “get with the
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The Two Sides of Corruption in Russia Corruption in Russia has been prominent since it was legal in the 17th century‚ when the tsar’s officers were allowed to take bribes. It was then illegalized‚ however never quite faded away especially during Soviet times when the conditions of the living people were harsh. It is still prominent in Russia today since the new capitalist country has not fully moved on from its socialist past. Understanding the historical content of corruption is critical in order
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------------------------------------------------- International Business In Russia Introduction There are a number of misconceptions about Russia as a business destination. Some people believe that conducting business in Russia is an all too easy process and that all it takes are some good connections or simply meeting with the right people. On the other hand‚ others believe that in Russia‚ it is almost impossible to do business and that companies are not governed by the basic principles of economics
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on the timeline. Specifically‚ choose events that are relevant to the political and economic development of Russia during this period. Your timeline should include a minimum of 15 events over this time period. Plot each event to indicate when they occurred‚ but also decide to what extent each event was moving Russia toward modernization and stability‚ or whether the event was moving Russia toward REVOLUTION. For each event‚ provide a 1-2 sentence justification to explain why you placed it in a
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William Gonzalez Dr. Verrecchia Juvenile Justice March 23‚ 2015 Kids for Cash The Kids for Cash book depicts the scheme that took place between two judges‚ Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan‚ and PA Child Care‚ a privately owned juvenile detention facility in Pittston‚ Pennsylvania. This scheme became known as the kids-for-cash scheme in which Judge Ciavarella would convict young children‚ for mostly petty crimes that the children or attorney would not be able to defend them‚ and send them
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WTO has been a long pending one and it was the only country of the G8 group not to be in the WTO. After around 18 years of negotiation‚ Russia finally joined WTO as the 156th member in August‚ 2012. The negotiations began way back soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union in June‚ 1993 when President Boris Yeltsin submitted the WTO membership application for Russia. During the 1990’s‚ Russia’s political system was very volatile and had a slow pace reforms which stagnated the WTO negotiations. To overcome
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NATO formally welcomed Russia as a participant – but not as a fullfledged member. The agree-ment signed at an extraordinary meeting of the leaders of NATO’s member nations‚ marked another major step in its effort to lock in Moscow’s shift toward the West. The accord will for the first time give Moscow a role from the outset in NATO discussions about a fixed variety of topics ‚ including non - pro-liferation‚ crisis management‚ missile defence and counterterrorism. But in an indication that the North
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INTRODUCTION Cash is a paradox. Why do individuals treat certain pieces of metal and paper differently from other similarly valueless objects? Despite the above‚ cash is an indispensable part of modern economies and is part of a complicated monetary regime. Even though we take it for granted that the pieces of paper in our wallet offer a reliable representation of our consumption power‚ this monetary regime is anything but trivial Money and cash (as a form of money) allow people to engage in complicated
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