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Igor Sechin

For decades Igor Sechin has helped sculpt the landscape of Russian business and politics from the shadows. Aggressive expansion strategies have now thrust the Rosneft CEO into the international spotlight

EU reports Russia to WTO over protectionism

The EU has told the WTO that Russia has been illegally protecting domestic car manufacturers through the introduction of a recycling fee levied on imported cars

Rosneft to offer $28bn takeover of BP’s Russian operations

BP is set to receive an offer of $25-28bn from Rosneft in return for its stake in the Russian TNK-BP joint venture

True Partners Consulting: Russian foreign investment

In the past, transfer pricing rules in Russia have caused investors to look elsewhere. But now, says Les Secular, things are beginning to change

Kazakhstan hopes for a better future

Kazakhstan’s economy – whilst fragile – appears to be picking up steam and offering the country a better future

Russia’s inevitable democratisation

As hundreds-of-thousands of protesters continue to descend on Moscow over alleged election fraud, Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinski ask how long the Russian government can treat its people with apathy

Oleg Deripaska and the Russian aluminium wars

Oleg Deripaska has a colourful history, much of which has come under scrutiny in the courtroom. Despite clearing his name several times, there’s another high-profile case on the cards

Kirill Dmitriev

The new CEO of Russian Direct Investment Fund carries a heavy burden. He is the man in charge of bringing investment to Russia – a country plagued with stigma

Sustainable energy takes root in Russia

The drive for sustainable resource management in the Russian Federation has gripped regulators and private organisations alike

Yevgeny Kaspersky

CEO and co-founder of one of Russia’s most successful IT security companies, Kaspersky Lab, Yevgeny Kaspersky is a mathematical prodigy turned millionaire by way of pure curiosity

Pariah of the homeland

In the book How they blew it: The CEOs and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s most catastrophic business failures, Tony Goodwin and Jamie Oliver alert the world to the debacle which embraces some business people. In this chapter, they investigate Boris Berezovsky, a one-time golden child of Russia; now a Russian exile

Russia eyes $50bn asset sale in 5 years

Russia plans to earn $50bn from privatisation over the next five years and the government will over-rule any objections from company managers over the sale of their firms, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has announced.”We will have a privatisation programme for approximately five years, worth around $10bn a year,” Kudrin told the Reuters Russia Investment Summit. […]

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