Posted on 10/26/2006 3:50:16 PM PDT by sergey1973
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Alexander Yurov) - The Russian market is quickly developing modern commercial methods.
Hypermarkets and supermarkets are springing up all over the country. It is indicative that from 2003 to 2006 their number surged from 8,991 to 20,524. Modern commercial outlets' share of the market is expected to triple by 2010, reaching 50%.
Several international retail chains are successfully operating in Russia, including Auchan, AVA, Metro, Migros Turk, REWE, SPAR and Tengelman. The Russian consumer market is becoming increasingly westernized, according to the latest research by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Merchants are offering more and more luxury and premium goods and are implementing different discount programs. Likewise, Russia's largest companies are actively expanding into different countries and regions. Yet the world's leading companies are still in no hurry to come to Russia: such giants as Carrefour, Makro, Tesco and Wal-Mart are not there yet.
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Guess they'll soon have a 2nd amendment? Oh, and they are free to harass Middle Eastern scum, just as much as they want...
A Russian may own up to 5 smoothbore guns with a licence (required a health certificate, two certificates that a person is not on official file as a psycho or drug addict, a postive report on the police and clean criminal record). An exam on gun regulating rules and bills must be passed.
If the person is a member of a hunters' club he'll receive the right to wear weapon outside built-up area. The club should give the person an examination on hunting rules.
In the built-iup area a hunter can transport his weapons (so they are upholstered and unloaded).
After 5 years long of possesing of a shotgun one can apply for the rifle licence and buy up to 5 rifles in addition to the shotguns. (Same papers required again and no record of violation of gun regulations).
Weapons shorter than 80 cm or with a barrel shorter than 50 cm are banned for public.
Private security agencies may own and use handguns, but the muzzle energy is limited to 300 joules.
There're some groups which struggle for legalisation of handguns for public.
Full-auto fire, magazine capacity over 10 rounds are allowed only for government agencies (not all of them).
A weapon older than 100 years isn't legally a weapon if there's a Ministry of Culture's certificate.
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