... from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
In the evening of 7 August 2014, Tokyo was struck by a happy surprise: Japan was exempted from Russia’s countermeasures designed in response to Western sanctions. The Jiji Press –a major Japanese media with global networks– immediately reported on its headline that “日本は制裁対象外＝欧米の青果など禁輸,...
The demise of the Cold War urged us to grow our brain out of the simplified friend-foe dichotomy. Reintegrating herself into an increasingly globalized world of the 21st century, Russia as well as any other country cannot think in an outdated framework of “you are either with us or against us.” Yet, we also must not dismiss the fact that there is a substantial difference between friendship and best-friendship. Therefore,...
... remains as the most fundamental measure of global business performance and development. Business systems are conventionally designed to expand the market share in any given market, and failure to do so may result in a corporate devolution. However, Russia happens to be one of the places where many elements of the conventional (Western) business thinking need to face a radical revision.
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Particularly in Russian energy sector,...
