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Q&A: Initiative Brings Khamatova Joy and FrustrationThe Soviet maxim "initiative is punishable" is only half true for actress Chulpan Khamatova. |
Q&A: Republican Entrepreneur Touts Obama's ResetListing just a few of his current jobs, including a board seat at steelmaker MMK and a post at a Moscow restaurant, takes Bernard Sucher about a quarter of an hour. |
Q&A: Kremlinologist's Russian Skills, Preserved in AlcoholEvery April for the past 17 years, former U.S. soldier Igor Belousovitch has gone to Arlington National Cemetery at the invitation of the Russian Embassy in Washington. |
Q&A: After Cracking the Code, IKEA Follows TraditionFelines pawed their way across the thresholds of two new IKEA stores last year in a breakthrough for Per Wendschlag, who had been country manager here for less than a year. |
Q&A: Delta Air Lines Is a Business and a Bridge for TarasovAs the son of a military pilot, air travel is in Leonid Tarasov's blood. He flew just two weeks after being born, back to his father's garrison in Ukraine. |
Q&A: How a French Sugar Seller Became a Jeweler of RosesFlorence Gervais d'Aldin got hooked on Russia at an early age when the Soviet Navy dropped anchor in Cherbourg, a port in northern France. |
Q&A: Chess Not Just a Game for Infrastructure OligarchThough he said he hadn't played chess for a year, infrastructure oligarch Andrei Filatov knew the risk of defeat was negligible when he agreed to a match with a less-than-talented Moscow Times reporter in the offices of the Russian Chess Federation. |
Q&A: Petrov Sells Russian Helicopters — and Flies ThemReaders of Britain's Times might have been astonished when they opened the newspaper one April morning last year and saw a full-page advertisement of a helicopter flying over Buckingham Palace and carrying a huge white gift box tied up with a white ribbon. |
Q&A: Mike Tyson's 'Mom' Peers Into the Russian MindThere is only one person in the world who boxing legend Mike Tyson calls "Mom" — and she's not his biological mother, who died when he was 16. The title goes to Marilyn Murray, a U.S.-born descendant of Russian immigrants who is also a scholar of the Russian mind. |
Q&A: Finn Flare's Ryasova Dressing People for SuccessThe answer as to why Russians are so good at getting rich quickly came to Ksenia Ryasova, who started and runs the chain of Finn Flare clothing stores, as she peered out the window of a train departing from Helsinki. |
Q&A: Metro's Jeroen de Groot Feels at Home, HumblyThe parching heat wave of 2010 did a tremendous favor to Germany's Metro Cash & Carry, just as Jeroen de Groot was coming on board to lead the company's Russian operation. |
Q&A: Yury Luzhkov Says He's a Completely Free ManImmediately after Yury Luzhkov was dismissed from office, his friend and predecessor Gavriil Popov asked him to be dean of the International University in Moscow. |
Q&A: Skrynnik Sets 7 Growth Records in AgricultureThere's much glitter in Agriculture Minister Yelena Skrynnik's reception area. Some of the sheen emanates from a gold-colored frame around a full-length mirror. More radiates from a nearby silvery imitation of an apple tree with shiny white fruit. |
Q&A: With Bribery, Spaniard Finds It Takes Two to TangoAntonio Linares was at wits' end. He had built Spanish giant Roca's first factory in Russia from the ground up in three years. |
Q&A: Following Instinct From Amsterdam to Moscow"By the time I get a chance to think about my decisions, I've already made them in my gut," Jan-Wilm Rovers said, crossing under the inflatable Father Frost that sits above the door to his office — one of 25,000 products sold by Koopman International RUS, the trading company where Rovers is chief executive. |
Q&A: Ferrero's Spanish Director Leads With the HeartArturo Cardelus has spent hundreds of hours on Russian lessons in the eight years since he moved to Moscow to build up the local operations of Ferrero, the Italian family-owned chocolate giant. |
Q&A: Boeing Chief Rejects Cold War MentalityBecoming one of the many taxi drivers with a Ph.D. was not what Sergei Kravchenko wanted to do 20 years ago. Today he is in charge of Boeing's largest operation outside the United States. |
Q&A: Success of 'Angry Birds' Hatched in Soviet NestFinding Peter Vesterbacka in a crowd isn't hard. It's not just that he's the one not wearing a suit … anymore. His bright-red hooded sweatshirt is adorned with a stern-looking cartoon bird. |
Q&A: Don't Call It a Collective Farm. It's Much BiggerDon't tell Patrick Ghidirim that the more than 250,000 hectares of rich black earth that he manages in central Russia is a free-market version of a mega collective farm. |
Q&A: From Printing Prohibited Books to Building PalacesBrand recognition is everything in business, and the Googles, Coca-Colas and Apples of the world spend billions of dollars every year building loyalty. |
Q&A: For Nikolai Fetisov, It's Always Been a Matter of TrustThe lobby of National Bank Trust's headquarters in downtown Moscow is your typical polished, corporate lobby with one exception: Hollywood actor Bruce Willis stands beside the front desk with crossed arms and a discerning expression on his face. No explosions this time: His life-size cardboard cutout would like to have a word with you about banking. |
Q&A: Steering the 'Gazprom of the U.S.' in Russian WatersFew people would dare to reject advice from Jack Welch, the former GE chairman and CEO who is widely admired as one of the greatest business leaders of the past century. |
Q&A: Zimin's Conversion to Capitalism Comes Full CircleAt 78, Dmitry Zimin is not your typical businessman. His success in creating VimpelCom, and growing it into the country's first corporation to go public on the New York Stock Exchange, overshadows his own personal transformation. |
Q&A: Success Is in the Details for PepsiCo Chief (and Putin)Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, stood beside a table stocked with bottles bearing a colorful mix of brands that her company produces in Russia. |
Q&A: Briton Navigates the Rough Without Paying BribesDavid Simons, a 45-year-old British entrepreneur and investor, beams as he beckons toward a wall of his Moscow office lined with golf trophies and photographs, including one of him posing with golfing legend Jack Nicklaus.
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Q&A: Experience, Energy and Instinct in Film and Games
Springing from her desk, Blanche Neumann, the petite managing director of Moscow-based Fetish Film, leaps forward from her desk and frenetically engages her team members, organizing their activities to achieve the immediate task. |
Q&A: How Coca-Cola Chief Copes With PressureThe hectic pace of business in Moscow and day-to-day management stress is pressure enough, but when Coca-Cola announced earlier this week that it plans to pump an additional $3 billion into Russia, local head Zoran Vucinic was unfazed. |
Q&A: Investing Millions of Dollars With Texan SenseTexan entrepreneur and investor Christopher Van Riet sits down with The Moscow Times to reminisce about his 15 years in Russia and to share insights into why he has succeeded where other foreign investors have failed. |
Q&A: Singapore's Tay Sees Mutual Lessons in Business With RussiaAt first glance, Russia and Singapore could not be more different. One is huge and the other tiny, one is mostly rural and undeveloped while the other has barely any free land. But the countries have been growing closer. |
Q&A: Viktor Semyonov Grows Vegetables and RelationshipsIf it weren't for Viktor Semyonov, "hold the lettuce" would have been the norm for the first Big Macs served by McDonald's when it entered Russia back in 1990. |
Opposition Applies for 50,000-Strong Rally June 12The Moscow Times
The latest major opposition protest may serve as the first test of a tough new rally law that could be approved as early as next week.
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Fridman Quits as CEO of TNK-BPThe Moscow Times
Billionaire businessman Mikhail Fridman has stepped down from his post as director of oil major TNK-BP, the company said Monday.
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There's Just One Nationality — Mathematician
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
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