New anti-bribery laws and overseas legislation are having a positive impact on Russia’s business environment
It is 20 years since what I consider to be the darkest days of my nearly quarter of a century living and doing business in Moscow. It was then, during Black October, that lawlessness reached its zenith in Moscow. As Yeltsin’s troops stormed the House of Soviets and arrested the parliamentarians who had plotted against him, it seemed as if all Moscow was armed and on the streets. More than 180 were killed at that time and many more injured. One of my own expatriate employees was seriously wounded in what was my most frightening experience as a businessman in Russia.
