Russian spectacular to take over Trafalgar Square for London’s Maslenitsa Festival, on 26th February
A family focused bustling bazaar of all things Russian, featuring music, food, crafts and a colourful children’s marquee will fill Trafalgar Square in the culmination of London’s Maslenitsa Festival, celebrating the arrival of Spring. The London event, supported by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is the largest celebration of Russian culture, art, music and food anywhere outside Russia.
In Mansion House, the 250-year old Georgian town palace that serves as home, office and entertainment venue for the Lord Mayor of the City of London, a distinguished group of City bankers and brokers yesterday (Wednesday 14th December) took advantage of a rare opportunity to quiz Alexander Voloshin, the 55-year old former Kremlin strongman now charged with creating an international financial centre (IFC) on the nitty gritty details of the project.
By Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of the City of London
By the time I come to the end of my year-long term as the Lord Mayor of the City of London in November, I will have spent almost 100 days overseas; visiting countries and financial centres identified as key target markets by leading City firms, promoting the City as an attractive location for international investment and helping international firms to overcome any barriers that may be impeding market access.
By John Bonar
Peter Kaznacheev, is a former member of the economic advisory team to then president Vladimir Putin and an assistant representative working on the preparation for the G8 summits. He later became a business development advisor for BP generating new business for the company. In 2009 he founded Khaznah Strategies Ltd. in London. Khaznah styles itself as “Bridging Business Cultures in Emerging Markets,” and in reinforcement of this, its web site www.khaznah.co.uk is in English, Russian and Arabic. His company has a strong bias towards the natural resources sector: oil, gas, metals and mining which he believes can act as locomotive for other industries.
By John Bonar
Every month a hundred or so Russians and their friends come together for a social evening and business networking opportunity in Home House, an exclusive London club on the corner of Portman Square. The regular event is organised by RUSSIANSinUK, an organisation founded in 2006 by Anya Portnik, who landed in the UK as a boarding pupil at a private boarding school twenty years ago.
By John Bonar
Every month a hundred or so Russians and their friends come together for a social evening and business networking opportunity in Home House, an exclusive London club on the corner of Portman Square. The regular event is organised by RUSSIANSinUK, an organisation founded in 2006 by Anya Portnik, who landed in the UK as a boarding pupil at a private boarding school twenty years ago.
The balding middle-aged man who was hailed as a "have-a-go-hero" for trying to trip up the fleeing assailant as he ran from his stabbed victim in Ladbroke Grove in the closing hours of the Notting Hill Carnival last Monday has been identified as former St Petersburg policeman, Valentine Simatchenko.
By Sayan Guha
Sergei Polonsky, the controversial Russian billionaire with a fortune of $4.35 billion and ranked Russia’s 40th richest person by Forbes magazine in 2008, is negotiating with British property developer Irvine Sellar to buy the 52 storey tower One Blackfriars. Located near the Tate Modern gallery in London, the tower has 64 luxury apartments and a 261 bedroom hotel. The scheme was developed by Liverpool based developer Beetham Organisation and Mr. Polonsky’s Mirax Group.
John K. Walmsley,the head of London legal firm JKW Law outlines the new fast route to sttlement in Britain for the wealthy and entrepreneurs.
The United Kingdom is borrowing record sums each month to service the national debt. Coupled with the huge cost of the bailout of the banks by the taxpayers, the UK economy needs all the entrepreneurs and inward investment that it can attract.
Attracting more foreign entrepreneurs and investment is seen as an important step to stimulating the economic recovery. But how?
The UK Government now thinks it has the answer and intends to market itself as an attractive destination for foreign capital by its recent changes to the Immigration Rules.
