Tag Archives: Central Federal District

A single expanse

Vasilenko, Sergey. “V edinom prostranstve,” Ekspert 23, 15 June 2009, 80-81. 25 June 2010 http://dlib.eastview.com.ezproxy.middlebury.edu/browse/doc/20220270.

An interview with Vaagn Martirosyan, general director of telecommunications firm OAO Tsentr-Telekom; discusses the differences between doing business in Tverskaya Oblast and its neighbors in the Central Federal District.  Assistance from oblast administration has helped the company develop much development of telecommunications and its own business in the region.  When asked about the company’s current problems, Martirosyan mentions issues of land ownership almost exclusively: after a land plot’s transfer to a new proprietor, cable lines must be used, or otherwise, use of the land through which the cables pass must be bought.  Additionally, “Questions over land-use often hold up new construction.”