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2014-10-30 — rt.com
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Under the deal, Russia was supposed to receive the first of the two warships, the Vladivostok, in October this year. However, delivery has been postponed due to the conflict in Ukraine, the impetus behind the international community's pressure on France to cancel the contract.
Western allies have been pushing Paris for months, saying that France has to make sacrifices to meet its commitment to oppose Moscow through sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.
See also this surprising piece (given the supposed cracking-down of the Kremlin over the Russian economy) :
Russia is now ranked 62nd in the World Bank's new 2014 Doing Business report, which measures the ease of doing business in 189 countries worldwide. The country climbed 30 positions from 92nd spot in 2013.
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Russia's steep improvement to 62nd place is due to the report changing its methodology in determining the rating by adding new indicators, such as ease of property registration and starting a new business, as well as the availability of credit, protection of minority shareholders, and bankruptcy procedures.
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