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JARKIJ SVET, CHERNYE TENI: PODLINNAJA ISTORIJA GRUPPY ABBA: MUZYKA. TVORCHESKIE BIOGRAFII. (ABBA. Bright light, dark shadows.)
Author: Palm Carl Magnus
Published by: St. Petersburg: Amphora in 2009
664 pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-5-367-00877-7 9785367008777

Price: 20.00 EUR LBOL Price: £30.00

ABBA was one of the most popular pop-band of 20th century. The success came after winning the Eurovision song contest in 1974 and continued word wide. This book gave us a whole picture of ABBA’s history combining facts and stories about members of the band into one exiting and interesting piece. Wonderful gift to all of ABBA’s fans and music lovers!

DOM NA NABEREZHNOJ. (The house on a quay.)
Author: Trifonov J
Published by: Moscow: AST in 2008
221 page, Hardcover
ISBN 978-5-17-049223-7 9785170492237

Price: 7.00 EUR LBOL Price: £11.00

“The house on a quay” is a dramatic and thrilling story about fear, love and hate between two old school friends, who meet each other again after 20 years. This story describes perfectly the nature of human fears and the process of adaptation into social systems. Young boys are growing up; their hopes and beliefs are changing and affecting on other people lives. Nobody stays the same.

NE VREMJA DLJA SHUTOK (There is no time for jokes!)
Author: Usacheva Elena
Published by: Moscow: Eksmo in 2008
224 pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-5-699-26074-4 9785699260744

Price: 6.00 EUR LBOL Price: £10.00

A book for teenagers, where young boys and girls meet new friends and enemies, fall in love for the first time and get unexpected help from their parents!

KOLODTSY PREDKOV The well of the forefathers
Authors: Khmelevskaja I.
Published by: Ekaterinburg: U-Faktorija in 2008
318 pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-5-9757-0245-6 9785975702456

Price: 9.00 EUR LBOL Price: £15.00

Ioanna Khmelevskaja is the most popular detective story writer in Poland. Her hero Ioanna reminds of the author herself – she is just as funny, clever and pretty as the writer who invented her! In this exiting story Ioanna and her family is looking for a stolen treasure. Khmelevskaja’s story is funny and positive reading for everybody.

OPERATSIJA "VALKIRIJA" (Operation “Valkyrie”)
Author: Knibe Tobias
Published by: Moscow: AST in 2009
288 pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-5-17-058272-3 9785170582723

This is the most tragic but totally unknown episode of World War Two. Klaus von Staufferberg comes back from Africa to Nazi-Germany and joins a conspiracy planning to kill Hitler.
There is a movie made based upon this story.

TRUDNO BYT BOGOM. (It’s hard to be God )
Author: Strugatski Arkadi & Boris
Published by: Moscow: Eksmo in 2008
640 pages, Hardcover
ISBN 978-5-699-17250-4 9785699172504

Price: 12.00 EUR LBOL Price: £18.00

Amazing collection of sci-fi-stories written by the best Russian writers including Strugatski brothers and many others.

Berdichevski A. Lestnitsa Steps.

Living Russian for businessmen travelling to Russia for the first time. Includes a CD.

The Lestnitsa - Steps book is a compact survival package for a business trip to Russia.

The first part of the book and the CD contain alphabetical exercises and dialogue material, which offer the most common oral exercises for language usage for an eight-day trip to Russia.

The second part of the book describes 12 cases from business life, which will train business people to understand the Russian people better and to act correctly when communicating with Russians.

The book is highly suitable for personnel training in companies, university education as well as for adult education. This book is also of great assistance for use as self-instruction.

The author, Prof. Dr. Anatoli Berditchevski, is an expert in teaching Russian business and language.

“Learning Russian with Steps book you get the feeling you are actually inside a transparent lift that takes you rapidly above the difficulties that we oldtimers used to face when learning Russian from textbooks designed for the last century. I definitely recommend the book to all our clients anxious for a head start into Russia” Jon Hellevig, Managing Partner, Hellevig, Klein & Usov

Author(s): Berdichevski A.

Published / Manufactured by: Helsinki: Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in 2007

130 pages, Paperback

ISBN 978-952-5685-08-4

Category: Russian Textbooks; Russian language textbooks for English speaking students

BIC category: YQF

Price: 27.78 EUR LBOL Price: £42.00 plus £2.50 UK delivery

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PRACTICAL DICTIONARY OF SIBERIA AND THE NORTH Practical Dictionary of Siberia and the North.

Authors: Akbaljan E., Golubchikova V., Khvtisiashvili Z.

"Practical Dictionary of Siberia and the North" is the first universal edition in the history of world book publishing which embraces history, nature, geography, economy of the northern areas of the whole world (Siberia, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, the North Pole, Northern Russia, Greenland); its peoples, also ethnographic data on indigenous numerically small ethnic groups. The dictionary contains 500 black-and-white illustrations and three colour inserts with Northern maps, flora and fauna, and clothing of Northern peoples.

The publication is offered with an attached CD-ROM containing 2,000 and more illustrations, photos, and maps, as well as sound tracks with samples of Northern ethnic music.

All Text In English.

Published in Paris by Publications Maecenas 2004. 1200 pages, hard cover with beautiful textile cover.

ISBN 5-98797-002-4 978-5-98797-002-7 9785987970027

Price EUR 92.59 LBOL Price: £125.00 plus £4.50 UK delivery

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Expressions and Interpretations. Our perceptions in competition. - A Russian Case. «Выражение и Толкование», на английском языке Hellevig J. Expressions and Interpretations. Our perceptions in competition. – A Russian Case.

In English

Author: Hellevig Jon.

This book is a unique presentation starting with the basic elements of philosophy and language and then building up to a description of social and political life dealing with dimensions such as: democracy, law, economy and moral, which are all showed to be perceptions resulting from social practices. Competition is the key denominator for all these aspects of social life. With the fundaments laid the presentation moves on to deal with post-Soviet Russian social reality and especially with the emergence of Russian law from the ashes of Soviet past.

The main theses the book builds on are that:

- Language represents interpretation of feelings and there is nothing more fundamental to it

- We need to make a sharp distinction between natural sciences and social sciences; Competition like we understand it in Economics is the organizing idea of all social cognition and sciences (although we have to be on our guard with the notion science)

- Law is first time ever properly defined as a Competition of Arguments

- Law is the result of social practices (legal practices). Law in an emerging country such as Russia will develop only with the development of peoples practices, not by mere issuance of laws and instructions as it is usually claimed.

- It is claimed that the Russian leadership has been successfully tackling these issues.

Published in Moscow by My Universities Press in 2006
386 pages, Paperback
ISBN 5-93347-222-0 978-5-93347-222-3 9785933472223

Price EUR 36.94 LBOL Price: £50.00 plus £2.50 UK delivery

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Usov Artem. Hellevig Jon. Avenir Guide to Russian Taxes. Third, updated and expanded edition.

The Russian taxation system is on its way from conception to maturity. With the Russian Tax Code the taxation rules have become much clearer, but in spite of the initial clarity the Russian taxation system is only taking form in the activity of law which can be described as a competition of arguments. Increasingly we feel that the provisions of the Tax Code (i.e. the arguments of the lawmaker) are challenged by the arguments expressed in legal practices, i.e. the interpretations and actions by the taxation authorities, business usages, and, last but not least, authoritative statements, culminating in the strong arguments by the supreme courts. This book will guide the investor and other interested readers to understand the resulting present day Russian taxation system. Together with a general overview of all the most important provisions of the law we deal at a practical level with details affecting investment choices, financing, repatriation of profits and day-to-day financial management issues. The book describes the framework of the taxation system covering the rights and obligations of both taxpayers and taxation authorities. All the taxes are presented and explained: the Corporate Profit Tax, the VAT, Personal Income Tax, Social Tax and others. Extra emphasis is placed on complex matters such as financing choices, leasing, thin-capitalization rules, transfer pricing, permanent establishments and other key issues in taxation. '

This is the third thoroughly expanded, updated and improved edition of the Avenir Guide to Russian Taxes, following the groundbreaking first edition of 2002 and the second updated edition of 2003. This time this book is a project of Avenir — Publications which has signed up Hellevig, Klein & Usov attorneys at law for the producing the contents. The authors of the book are Jon Hellevig and Artem Usov, partners with the law firm. Dr. Alexander Vereshchagin has conducted a thorough research of all the relevant themes and served as the editor for this present edition.

We hope that the Avenir Guide to Russian Taxes will continue to enhance the understanding of the Russian taxation laws and serve as an excellent reference guide to practical matters being a real aid in work for directors, controllers, legal counsels and other managers of companies, as well as students and anybody that wants to know how taxes are levied in Russia.

Includes a glossary of Russian tax terminology (English-Russian).

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Author(s): Hellevig Jon, Usov Artem

Published / Manufactured by: Helsinki: Russia Advisory Group in 2006

268 pages, Paperback

ISBN 952-99785-0-2 978-952-99785-0-2 9789529978502

Category: Business. Economy

BIC category: K

Price: 63.89 EUR LBOL Price: £90.00 plus £3.50 UK delivery

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Usov Artem. Hellevig Jon. Avenir Guide to Russian Labor Law and HR Administration.

This Avenir Guide to Russian Labor Law and HR Administration is a new and updated edition of the initial Avenir Guide to Russian Human Resources (2002). All legal issues in the Guide are discussed with respect to rules in force as of year 2006 taking into consideration also the changes and amendments passed in the Labor Code in 2006. In addition we have considered some of the important administrative regulations and cases from court practice that are able to supplement, modify or even corrupt the legislation, and frequently do so.

Understanding the Russian labor law is one of the first challenges for a foreign company developing a presence in Russia. In Russia the labor laws are mainly collected in Labor Code. The provisions of this Labor Code are very detailed, cumbersome and at places confusing, and will not easily open for the foreign reader unfamiliar with the Russian law and the underlying traditions. In order to meet this need we have developed the Avenir Guide to Russian Labor Law and HR Administration, which gives a clear and structured description of the provisions.

This book will guide the foreign legal counsel, HR specialist and executives to understand the living provisions of the present day regulations of the Russian labor law.

The Guide gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of such issues as hiring and firing (with a special emphasis on top-managers), work permits, compensations, work protection, liability, labor disputes and so on. In addition to the descriptive part it contains a glossary of Russian legal terms relative to Labor Law and HR paired with their English translations.

This is a new second and considerably expended edition of this Avenir Guide At the beginning of the century Russian labor legislation underwent a sweeping reform, and it is now that the legal practices are taking shape. Therefore, the Guide is primarily focused on the Russian Labor Code and gives a comprehensive account of its novelties, merits and demerits found in the regulations of the labor relations in practice. Frequently administrative regulations and court practices supplement, modify or even corrupt the legislation; this Guide goes when needed beyond the Labor Code to address these issues as well.

This Guide is primarily designed as a concise manual for investors, managers and human resource personnel of foreign companies conducting business in Russia. At the same time, its clear and accessible style makes it a godsend for students and all those who want to get a general overview of the subject.

The authors of the book are Jon Hellevig and Artem Usov partners with the law firm Hellevig, Klein & Usov Llc.

Includes a glossary of Russian Labor Law and HR Administration terminology (English-Russian).

Published / Manufactured by: Helsinki: Russia Advisory Group in 2007

128 pages, Paperback

ISBN 978-952-99785-6-4 9789529978564

Category: Business. Economy

BIC category: K

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Price: 45.37 EUR LBOL Price: £65.00 plus £3.50 UK delivery

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Hellevig Jon. All is Art: On Social Practices and Interpretation of Feelings - On Democratic Competition.

All is art: the art we see as deliberate art, but also science and even our daily being. Art is being, the living in search of an expression for interpretation of feelings. - Interpretations of each individual life are captured in the expressions of language, and through language all the human, all aspects of human life are governed by and reflected in social practices, in people’s life in the commonwealth.

The book reveals the connection of art with the evolution of the physical and chemical through biological to the mental and language – all related in the binary struggle between pain and pleasure of which art is a reflection, and a quest to overcome. This binary friction occurs in all aspects of life from the smallest cellular processes to the grand combats between men on earth. In art through language, expressions, the battle between pain and pleasure is brought from the biological organism to the mental plane. – The mental is later than the biological, and language is the latest stage of development; language as of yet underdeveloped, not fit for feelings; language restricting thinking – what can be thought of - and knowledge - what can be known. Language is our challenge.

Art is the answer. Art is the great laboratory of mankind; art for art’s sake the only true means for exploring the limits of the unknown, an assault on the frontiers of the unthinkable, the unknowable. Therefore a breakthrough in art, a breakthrough in expression, is a breakthrough in science, and this is the only true progress we can ever hope for.

Author(s): Hellevig Jon

Published / Manufactured by: Helsinki: Russia Advisory Group in 2007

294 pages, Paperback

ISBN 978-952-99785-4-0 9789529978540

Category: Literature in English

Price: 25.56 EUR LBOL Price: £38.00 plus £2.50 UK delivery

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Russische Lackmalerei. Palech, Mstjora, Fedoskino, Choluj. In German.

Published / Manufactured by: St. Petersburg: Jarkij gorod in 2007

288 pages, Hardcover

ISBN 978-59663-0076-0 9785966300760