Oligarchs and Kleptocrats: Russian Business through Western eyes

... owing to the higher capital costs or regulatory hurdles arising from these risk perceptions, or in terms of Western sanctions, that set the transactions limits. However, the popular view of Russian commerce as a risk or threat is usually without merit. Western narratives about Russian commercial activity are founded on value judgments rather than factual analysis, as an extensive research for a Russian legal journal has shown [2] . Russians are astute international investors, who create new business ...