On May 20, 2021, East Office (an association of large Finnish businesses operating in Russia) in partnership with the Nordic West Office (an international global affairs consultancy and think tank serving large Scandinavian businesses) hosted an online conference on "US-Russia Rivalry and the Nordic Companies."
The discussion was attended by about fifty executives and managers of Scandinavian companies represented on the Russian market, including energy, construction, information and communication, financial, food and other sectors.
On May 20, 2021, East Office (an association of large Finnish businesses operating in Russia) in partnership with the Nordic West Office (an international global affairs consultancy and think tank serving large Scandinavian businesses) hosted an online conference on "US-Russia Rivalry and the Nordic Companies."
The discussion was attended by about fifty executives and managers of Scandinavian companies represented on the Russian market, including energy, construction, information and communication, financial, food and other sectors.
Lauri Veijalainen, CEO at East Office of Finnish Industries; Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times; Fiona Hill, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ilkka Salonen, Executive Chairman of the Board, East Office; addressed the participants.
The event was moderated by Risto E J Penttilä, CEO of Nordic West Office. The discussion focused on the current state and possible shifts in the U.S.-Russia relations in the context of the upcoming summit for Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, the importance of the "Chinese factor" for interaction between Russia and the United States, the future of the U.S. policy of anti-Russian sanctions, the prospects for structural changes in the Russian economy, and other issues that in one way or another affect the work of foreign companies in Russia.
