Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the USA Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the USA Business opportunities for American Airlines Business opportunities for American Airlines in the Russian Federation and CIS countries in the Russian Federation and CIS countries
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Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the USARussian-American Chamber of Commerce in the USA
Business opportunities for American AirlinesBusiness opportunities for American Airlinesin the Russian Federation and CIS countriesin the Russian Federation and CIS countries
Benefits for American Airlines
• Access to new information and statistics about the markets in Russia and CIS;
• Organization of meetings with Russian counterparts: government officials, business executives from airline industry;
• Building relationships with the Chamber’s members.
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• Geography
Area: 17 million sq. km. (6.6 million sq. mi.); about 1.7 times the size of the United States.
Cities: Capital – Moscow (pop. 10.5 million). Other cities – St. Petersburg (4.6 million), Novosibirsk (1.4 million), Yekaterinburg (1.3 million), Nizhniy Novgorod (1.3 million).
• People
Population (1 December 2008): 141.9 million. Annual growth rate (2008 est.): -0.14% (population declining)
• Education (total pop.): Literacy – 99.4% Health: Life expectancy (2008 est.) – 61.5 yrs. men, 73.9 yrs. women
RUSSIA
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• GDP (official exchange rate): $1.779 trillion (2008 est.)• GDP - real growth rate: 7.3% (2008 est.)• GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 4.6% ; industry:
39.1% ; services: 56.3% (2007 est.)• Labor force: 75.8 million (Dec. 2008 est.)• Investment (gross fixed): 19.4% of GDP (Jan.– Sept. 2007
est.)• Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $251.3 billion
(Sept. 2008)• Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $75.8 billion
(Sept. 2008)
I. RUSSIAN ECONOMY
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The Chamber:
• Serves as an umbrella organization for promoting trade and commerce between the USA and the Russian Federation and the CIS countries;
• Serves as an advocacy group for the American and Russian businesses;
• Has over 200 corporate members in the USA, Russia, CIS and Baltic States.