

Russia has the world's most fraudulent economy and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime have done little to stop its spread during the global financial downturn, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey.
Subway, the world's No. 2 fast food restaurant chain by sales, plans to expand its Russian network to 1,000 outlets by 2015 from 78 now and make Russia its fourth-biggest European market next year.
A speculative bubble in rough diamond prices is likely to pop by mid-2010 and threaten a re-run of last year's industry crisis, according to an executive of the world's second-largest producer, Russia's Alrosa.
