Young Social innovators (YSI) will hold its annual ‘Showcase’ event next Wednesday 9th of May in City West at 9am.
President Michael D. Higgins will arrive at the event at 2.40pm where he will be greeted by a number of YSI school students and St. Stanislaus Kennedy, Co Founder of YSI. The President’s address will take place at 3.10pm in the main auditorium. Read more…
The Dublin-based marketing communications agency Dialogue Marketing has won a major international account in Russia.
The agency, which is headed up by Michael Killeen, has picked up the account to handle Renault Russia. The account covers all integrated solutions.
According to Michael Killeen, Dialogue won the business on the back its four step CRM “IDIC” process (Identification, Differentiation, Involvement and Customisation) which it has developed successfully over the last decade. The final strategy is being finalised and creative will be in place for January 2012 across all channels.
“‘The work we take for granted here is viewed as best in class in other regions, particularly as you move east across Europe. The obvious challenge for us was to give them a simple yet effective process that they can understand and one that allows for local inputs on each tactical model by model execution,” says Killeen. Read more…
Here is a must read article for those engaged in Russia and beyond.
STRATFOR: Russia’s Strategy
For Russia, the recreation of a union is a strategic necessity.
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/russias-strategy
The 24th of February IRBA and Dublin City event attracted one hundred Irish businessmen, representatives of the Russian embassy and the press.
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Ivan Kush of ITAR-TASS news agency reported the following (translated and adapted by Vladimir Popov).
The Irish government is set to a positive dialogue with Russia in the economic sphere, Richard Bruton TD, Minister for enterprise, jobs and innovation, concluded at the event. “Irish-Russian relations are on the rise. In particular, the Irish services in high demand on the market. Many Irish companies have already achieved success in Russia in such areas as medicine, agriculture, construction, information technology, aviation”, said the Minister. He noted that the Irish-Russian relations have great potential. “One of the priority areas, in my opinion, is agriculture. Ireland is ready to deliver environmentally friendly products of excellent quality” he explained. “[Ireland] achieved certain results in the field of education: Irish institutions such as the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College actively cooperate with Russian universities. I understand that many Russians do not even know of the existence of our country. In this regard, the Russian students who come here on exchange, become cultural ambassadors in the future and will develop our relations, particularly trade”. Read more…
Our January Newsletter is out now and can be found here.
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev’s concise but comprehensive overview of Russian economy on trueeconomics.blogspot.com.
Newsletter of To Russia with Love charity, our member, run by Debbie Deegan, who has been doing amazing work helping orphan children in Russia.
Download newsletter (PDF, 2Mb).
The Voice of Russia, country’s radio broadcast in 38 languages, interviewed Constantin Gurdiev, IRBA chairman, on Ireland-Russia trade and economic relations.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/23/47865338.html
Interfax, Russia’s second largest news agency, has published an interview with Constantin Gurdiev, IRBA chairman, where he discussed the real strength of Ireland and the opportunities it presents.
http://www.interfax.ru/txt.asp?sec=1483&id=174612
The interview is published in Russian.
