Environmental

Noise Control Act

The noise controll act was put into order in the year 1972. This act was came into effect because of the extreme noises that urban areas were experiancing throughout the years. The government was saying that too much noise was causing health issues for many Americans. Most of this noise was coming from machinery, appliances, and vehichles.

The act allows three things to happen

(1) establish a means for effective coordination of Federal research and activities in noise control;

(2) authorize the establishment of Federal noise emission standards for products distributed in commerce; and

(3) provide information to the public respecting the noise emission and noise reduction characteristics of such products.  

The Federal Government rarley steps in to enfoce this law. usually it is the Local and State that take action when this act is not followed.

Consumer

Federal Trade Commission

This Commision was formed in the early 1900′s so that monopolies would not grow. As we can see today there are still some monopolies out there such as AT&T and Starbucks. The commision or the act of this is to break up these monopolies in order to let other have a fair chance for compitition. When there is fair compition then no one can get to powerful.

Employee

Employment discrimination law in the United States

This laws protects worker from being harassed in way that are not their fault. No one in the workplace is allowed to say anything racial or wrong to anyone without there being a few consiquences. This allowes the employees of a certain workplace to feel like they belong there and to make them more comfortable. This act is sometimes violated and there have been some court cases on it depending on how severe the racial or anything like that was.

RUSSIA’S POLITICAL SYSTEM

They have a Federal Republic, which means that Russia has states with a Republican form of Government. It is also semi-presidential, which means that both a Prime Minister and a President handle day-to-day business together.

The Russian Federation is made up of 21 republics. Moscow is the capital. It consists of a three branch system of government copied from the US. The executive branch is headed by Boris Nikolayevick Yelstin(since 12 June 1991). The legislative branch is a bicameral federal assembly, it consists of the State Duma and the Federal Council. The State Duma has 450 members that are elected throughout the country based on population of the districts. The Federal Council has 176 members, two each elected from Russia’s 89 territorial units. Judicial Branch: Constitutional Court, Supreme Court(highest court for criminal, and administrative cases), Superior Court of Arbitration (highest court that resolves economic matters) There are more than 20 parties currently competing in Russian politics.

Russia Economic Structure

(The economy of Russia is the twelfth largest economy in the world by nominal value and the seventh largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

 Russia is very rich in natural gas oil, coal, and precious metals as well as Agriculture.There has been a lot of changes for Russia in the past ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. They went from completely doing their own thing all the way to being part of the world with every other country. Today they are known as a free market system, but in the past they were a command economy. (very wealthy)

Russia Economy: GDP and Labor

Russia’s GDP – official exchange rate in 2009 was $1.255 trillion. 

Russia’s GDP-real growth rate from 2007 to 2009. these are in percentages. 

The following chart illustrates Russia’s GDP-per capita from 2007 to 2009. All data are in USD. 

Russia’s breakdown of GDP by composition is as follows (data in percentages): 

Russia’s labor force totaled to 75.81 million in 2009. The rate of unemployment increased to 8.9% in 2009 from 6.5% in 2008. The following chart shows Russia’s composition of labor force by occupation (data in percentages). 

 Russia’s Exports

1. Oil & other petroleum products …US$10 billion (50.5% of Russia to U.S. exports, up 25.2% from 2005)
2. Aluminum … $1.8 billion (9.3%, up 5.9%)
3. Semi-finished iron & steel products … $1.5 billion (7.7%, up 128.4%)
4. Nuclear fuels … $866.3 million (4.4%, down 0.6%)
5. Finished metal products other than steel … $852.9 million (4.3%, up 78.3%)
6. Precious metals … $697.6 million (3.5%, up 23.1%)
7. Nickel … $645.3 million (3.3%, up 85.5%)
8. Steelmaking materials … $635.6 million (3.2%, up 56.5%)
9. Fertilizers, pesticides & insecticides … $395 million (2.0%, up 22.9%)
10. Fish & shellfish … $375.3 million (2.0%, up 18.5%)

These are some of the major ones in this country but some of them that are starting to grow are aircrafts, train transportation and military products.

Russia exports to countries all over the world. The main ones are

• The US
• Canada
• China
• Japan
• Middle east countries
• And all around Europe

Russia Imports

1. Meat incl. poultry … US$636.7 million
2. Passenger cars … $399.3 million (8.5%, up 25.1%)
3. Civilian aircraft … $384.3 million (8.1%, up 222.6%)
4. Oil field drilling equipment … $319.6 million (6.8%, up 2.3%)
5. Excavating machinery … $170.7 million (3.6%, down 5.1%)
6. Computer accessories … $155.1 million (3.3%, up 9.9%)
7. Agricultural machinery … $148.1 million (3.1%, up 1.8%)
8. Service industry machinery … $125.2 million (2.7%, up 48.8%)
9. Trucks, buses & special purpose vehicles … $117 million (2.5%, up 48%)
10. Materials handling equipment … $98.6 million (2.1%, up 96.5%)

Who they import from(major countries)

• US
• China
• Japan
• European countries(not much though)

Other Facts of Russia

Russia today from what we know has a trade surplus with many countries around the world. Many of these countries include those from Europe and Japan because they don’t have a lot of things for themselves so in order to get them they have to buy. When they do this they run out of money and that causes Russia to have a trade surplus with them. They mainly get all of this off of their oil.

From what we know the standard of living in Russia has gotten better over the years. In the past there wasnt a lot of opportunities for people but today there is. When the Soviet union failed things got better and better. Today Russian can find a lot of what they need and their health concern isn’t that big of a deal as what it has been. The drinking has gone down and many russians are eating healthier so it looks as if things have started to get better. Many families have money today and that consists of a Ruble. 

Russia is very similar to the US in a lot of ways and the main one consists of Government and economy.

Written by Nate Barnett