Tag: Russian businessmen

Putin Sanctions Making Entrepreneurs ‘Enemies of the Regime,’ Inozemtsev Says

August 12, 2014

Staunton, August 11 – Many observers are focusing on the impact Putin’s ban on imports from countries which have imposed sanctions on Russia will have on Russian consumers, but Vladislav Inozemtsev says that it will have more serious consequences for Russian entrepreneurs and their relationship with the Kremlin. Because the sanctions will hit the entrepreneurs’ […]

Izborsky Club Leader Calls for ‘Renewal’ of Russia Elite to Build Empire

June 24, 2014

Staunton, June 22 Russia has been able to defend and then expand its empire only when it has “recruited new and good people,” according to Vitaly Averyanov, the director of the Institute of Dynamic Conservatism and a leader of the influential Izborsky Club headed by Aleksandr Prokhanov. Averyanov told a St. Petersburg meeting of that […]