Turkmenistan is the region's biggest exporter

DUBLIN, Ireland(Business Wire)Research and Markets( http://) hasannounced the addition of the "2009 Trendology: U.S Advertising Agencies"report to their offering The 2009 Trendology report on the U.S. Advertising Agencies industrycharacterizes the industry in three descriptive methods: qualitative analysis,quantitative data and lists of major industry players. The written analysisincludes financial issues, technology issues, human resources issues, supplierissues, consumer issues, government regulations, global factors, major industrynews highlights, major earnings and profit reports, major mergers andacquisitions, and our exclusive industry SWOT analysis (industry internalstrengths, internal weaknesses, external opportunities and external threats). Along with the trend analysis, quantitative data includes five-year trends(2006-2010) on number of establishments, industry and number of employees. Thisdata is developed through Trendologys economic model using regression analysisbased on historical industry trend data. Forecasts are available for 2010.Quantitative data for current year 2009 is provided for the U.S., 50 U.S.states, and 900 metro areas.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will try to persuade gas producer Uzbekistan that it should ignore the overtures of European suitors hunting for alternatives to Russian energy supplies. in the gas sector."Medvedev will meet Uzbek President Islam Karimov on Thursday at the start of a two-day visit, his first to the former Soviet republic since he was elected president last year.Europe depends on Russia for a quarter of its gas and anxiety over the reliability of those supplies was increased by the Russia-Ukraine dispute, which disrupted flows to about 20 states in the European Union."It is unwise for one member state to rely on one country for its energy supplies. This was not secure," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said this week."We have to stop simply talking about energy security in Europe, and start doing something about it," he said.NOT ENOUGH GASEurope's hopes for diversifying its energy supplies rest in large part on the Nabucco project, a plan to pump up to 31 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year of gas from the Caspian Sea region to Europe, bypassing Russia.The problem is that for now, there is not enough gas to put into the planned pipeline. Iran is a possible source, but the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program makes that awkward for the Nabucco project's European backers.The other potential source is Central Asia, which exports about 70 bcm a year about the same as Italy's annual consumption.Turkmenistan is the region's biggest exporter.