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The Leopardskin Coloured Country
GIM-Unimpresa is the Association of Italian Entrepreneurs operating in Russia. It unites more than 160 businesses, amongst them large (ENI, ENEL, Parmalat, Indesit, Ferrero, Banca Intesa, UNICREDIT) but the vast majority of which are small to medium-sized. The association's president, Vittorio TORREMBINI told BIGRUSSIA about the particularities of Russian business in Italian.
How to Turn Waste-Land into Usable Land
An Englishman Guy CHEYNEY has proved that Russian local officials can foster business completely without self-interest.
Dress Code
Dutchman Paul Commandeur left his job in a bank to set up business in Moscow providing made-to-measure suits to bankers, lawyers, and other businesspeople.
News From Russia
Irrespective of the Sanctions
BIGRUSSIA magazine’s customary poll taken in the lobby of the SPIEF-2017 demonstrates that foreign companies’ interest in doing business in Russia is on the increase
4th Asian-European Business Innovation Congress
TECHNOPOLIS MOSCOW
11 derelict buildings in the centre of Moscow are to be put up for auction
The city authorities intend to sell by e-auctions over ten properties in need of repair in Moscow’s Central Administrative District.
Day of Europe on the Moscow Exchange
European business experience, current financial instruments, business networking in the heart of the Russian financial liquidity.
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BIGRUSSIA 01-02.2012
Do we travel? With pleasure!
In November of 2011, our magazine told how Georgi BERENZON-CHARIYEV, head of the Russian Language Center of Information and Culture in Israel, set up the “Radostnoye Puteshestviye” (“Joyful Travel”) travel agency and came to Moscow to seek partners. Georgi succeeded in coming to an agreement about cooperation with the Moscow travel agencies Discovery and Intourmarket Business Travel. Two months later, we got in touch with Georgi to find out what changes had taken place in the activities of his small firm.
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Do you have a “safety net”?
Doctor Gerd LENGA has been selected as Chairman of the German Association for Economic Cooperation with Countries of Eastern and Central Europe (OMV) from the 1st of January 2012. In his opinion, the Association should, first and foremost, represent the interests of medium and small business ventures. In this interview, Gerd LENGA tells of the kind of realities a foreign national, considering business in Russia, may encounter.
Personal Experience
Michigan milk yield on Vladimir’s soil
The Rozhdestvo settlement is a typical Russian village in the Vladimir Region not far from the town of Petushki. In all, it is just over 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Moscow. In 2005, descended from a family of farmers, Lorin Grams came here to manage the dairy and livestock complex named after the settlement, along with his wife Katie and their children. But the dairy farm “Rozhdestvo”, consisting of three farms, machine and tractor station, 4,500 hectares (11,100 acres) of land and many thousands of head of livestock – was established by an Englishman John Kopiski.
Personal Experience
How the Frenchman amazed Russians with his...Pancakes!
He is the successful co-owner of Moscow's extremely popular French pancake café “Crêperie de Paris”, the first of which opened its doors to customers in the summer of 2002. Today Monsieur Patrice Tereygeol agreed to tell BIGRUSSIA's readers how he ended up in Russia, and how he succeeded in starting his own business here.
Personal Experience
Don't give up, never fear and...learn!
Having turned up in St. Petersburg during the nineties, the German Stephanie Tsomakaeva not only stayed in Russia but started her own business. What is more, she helps with the development of small businesses and is in no hurry to return to her native Frankfurt-on-Main. But, all in due course. The amount of time given to talk in the office of her company Ost-West KontaktService on Nevskiy avenue was more than enough. And so, Stephanie Tsomakaeva has the floor.
Personal Experience
How Fabio and his pizzas won the Far East
As he set out from Italy to work in Russia, 25-year-old Fabio Batrone had no idea that in Vladivostok, a city on the furthest edge of this mysterious country, he would meet his future wife Olga, and that his pizza would even be enjoyed by Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Russia. Neither could he imagine that it would be here, more than ten thousand miles from his native Rome, that he would realize his cherished dream of opening his own pizzeria.
Trading with Russia
To Each their Own Boot-Tree!
One could say that Aldo Bruè, owner of the luxury Italian men's footwear company of the same name, came to the Russian market quite by accident. In 1994 Russian customers first ordered Aldo Bruè shoes at an exhibition in Germany. Today Bruè produces 100,000 pairs of shoes each year, 60% of which are sold precisely in Russia. In the Moscow “National” hotel, near the Kremlin, the 70-year-old Italian shared with BIGRUSSIA the secrets of how he succeeded in attracting Russian customers.
To Work in Russia
Which Foreigners are Ahead of the Competition
Luc Jones, a partner in the Moscow office of British recruitment company Antal Russia, discusses living and working in Russia. He knows from his own experience what Europeans and Americans can expect here.
Startup and Venture
Islet of Success
Ostrovok.ru is an online Russian language service for finding and booking hotels in Russia and across the world. Today this website contains information on more than 130,000 hotels in 200 different countries, and boasts around 300,000 visitors every month. And it was founded just over a year ago, in 2010, by two young entrepreneurs, Sergey FAGUET and Kirill MAKHARINSKY.
Startup and Venture
Simple is Profitable
Why is travel sector regarded as the most profitable one among online industries? Why do global market players lose to local ones? Here are the answers to these questions for BIGRUSSIA by Fritz DEMOPOULOS – online travel industry expert, founder of Qunar.com, and one of Ostrovok.ru’s investors.
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