Khabarovsk city as well as in other Russian cities is exposed to macroeconomic trend influence though has its specific features. accommodation prices greatly vary depending on the location of flats. Thus for the proper accommodation value assessment it’s better to divide the market into three location zones: Center, Northern and Southern districts. The analysis provided in the present Article is based on the assessment of the most liquidaccommodation – one-room apartment of new design.

we can make a conclusion that the market is standing still waiting for more cost dropping, though predicted by many analysts decrease is not anticipated. In such circumstances a customer is passing out of sight waiting for prices collapse. But as soon as a slight hint appears, demand will flow into the market and one more rise of prices is unavoidable.

A year ago the average price of one-room flat of new design on one of the central Khabarovsk streets – Lenina st. totaled 2300 kRUR, in June 2009 the cost of similar apartment was hardly less than 2250 kUSD. The explanation is that the demand for the apartments in Central part of Khabarovsk city was always high, and even during crisis period customers are not going to decrease their prices. If a bargain is not urgent, most people prefer to wait for better opportunity keeping the same level of price. In addition to that the accommodation price on the secondary market and on new building market doesn’t significantly differ: in the housing estate “Amurskiye zori” an average flat of 42 s.m. costs 2300 kUSD along with the so-called brezhnevka (old-design flat) of 32 s.m.

Altogether up to 350 000 people die in Russia each year due to smoking related illnesses. The cost of smoking to the economy of Russia certainly runs into billions of dollars annually. Research across the world has shown that people who smoke have a high rate of absenteeism. This steals prime productivity time away from the economy which is equivalent to billions of dollars.

The cost of smoking to a country such as Russia will also be linked to the cost of looking after those who fall ill due to smoking. Smoking diseases such as cancers and respiratory infections severely eats into national health budgets of countries with millions of smokers such as Russia.

At least for Russia, the leaders have come out condemning smoking calling it a tragedy for the nation. This is hardly the case in developing countries where leaders can not openly shame smoking due to fears of revenues drying up. This is particularly the case in China where 350million smokers contributes up to 8% in tax income to national coffers.

In June 2010 it was reported that Russia was introducing compulsory “Smoking Kills” signs on cigarette packaging. In addition packaging will also indicate the dangers of smoking such as cancers, wrinkles and impotence amongst men. The government of Russia through the ministry of finance is also aiming to increase tobacco taxes fully by 2011 as a way of discouraging smoking. Tobacco taxes have been shown to be very effective in reducing the numbers of people who smoke.

In fact there are two leading reasons why people who smoke stop smoking namely the fear of diseases associated with smoking and the financial burden of continued smoking. In Japan in particular the government there has evidently been able to cut back on smoking by simply increasing taxes. Smoking in Russia is so serious it is predicted should the trend continue the population will shrink from 142 million in 2010 to about 116 million in 2050.

As is the case in many other countries, the tragedy in Russia is that the government is still putting a lot more emphasis on reducing smoking cigarettes. Big tobacco appears to have since devised new strategies to get many more people hooked on smoking especially the young people. The new frontiers of the tobacco fight are now smokeless tobacco which is mostly chewing tobacco.