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.

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.