The Russian economy (catch all)

[Firn]

IIRC the Moscow Times run a while ago an article why Russia imports so much fish from the West and still exports a large amount to other countries. The solution is of course quite obvious and has to do with the sheer size of Russia and the distribution of it's population...

Actually a considerable part of Chinese products destined for Russia gets shipped to the EU for similar reasons.

BTW, the article 'The World is still not flat' has a nice graph which should underestimate to a good degree the calls between countries where costs are relatively high. Still if you take that into account it (over)fits with the streams of trade.



Now what did the authors have in mind when they put Russia so far away from the rest of Europe? Other then that a large amount of calls goes to Ukraine*...

*Many Ukrainians, just like folk from Kazakhstan, work of course in Russia which explains part of the volume.