RBCC Bulletin Issue 2 2015

RUS­SO-BRI­TISH CHAM­BER OF COM­MER­CE Patron His Roy­al Highness Prin­ce Micha­el of Kent GCVO Hono­ra­ry Pres­idenTS HE Alexander Yakovenko Ambas­sa­dor of the Russian Federation to the UK Tim Barrow CMG LVO MBE HM Ambassador to the Russian Federation BOARD OF DIRECTORS Roger Munnings CBE, Chairman Trevor Barton, RBCC Executive Director Sir Anthony Brenton Peter Charow, BP Vyacheslav Kopiev, AFK Sistema Nikolay Kosov, International Investment Bank Stuart Lawson, EY Yevgeny Merkel, Excelion Partners International Olga Podoinitsyna, VTB Capital Alya Samokhvalova, Petropavlovsk Paul Shale, Treasurer Yana Smelyansky ADVISORY COUNCIL Professor Charles Hendry MP, President Roger Munnings CBE Trevor Barton, RBCC Executive Director Andrei Bougrov, Interros Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco, Rosinter Restaurants Alex Bertolotti, PwC Michael Calvey, Baring Vostok Capital Partners Andrew Cranston, KPMG Gerard Baltazar, In2Matrix Group Andrei Goltsblat, Goltsblat BLP Nikolay Kosov, International Investment Bank Paul Melling, Baker & McKenzie Sergey Derevyagin, Russian Embassy in London Georgy Petrov, RFCCI Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, John Smith Memorial Trust Yuri Shafranik, Russian Union of Oil and Gas Industrialists Jon Tibbs, Jon Tibbs Associates Ltd Igor Yurgens, Institute of Contemporary Development Anastasia Kourovskaia, Millward Brown Optimor Igor Ashurbeyli, SOCIUM-A Lon­don Offi­ce 11 Belgrave Road, Lon­don SW1V 1RB Tel.: +44 (0) 207 931 6455 Fax: +44 (0) 207 233 9736 Executive Direc­tor Trevor Barton Deputy Director Anna Vidiney RFCCI Liaison Manager Sergei Averin Commercial Manager Vitaly Varvinskiy Business Development Manager Fred Sugarman-Warner MOS­COW Offi­ce 16 bld. 1 Tverskaya St, Business centre "Galereya Akter", Office 604, 6th Floor, Mos­cow 125009, Rus­sia Tel.: +7 (495) 961 2160 Fax: +7 (495) 961 2161 Russia Director Alan Thompson Deputy Director Olga Karapysh Com­mer­cial Mana­ger Maria Sarkisova Events Manager Vadim Strelchuk Chief Accountant Tatiana Kravtsova Accountant Nina Minova ST PETERSBURG Offi­ce Russo-British Chamber of Commerce St. Petersburg and North-West Russia Business Center "Ostrov", 36/40 Sredniy prospect St Petersburg 199004, Russia Tel.: +(812) 327-80-45 ext. 218 Deputy Director, St Petersburg Svetlana Topilina Accountant Kristina Efremenko THE BULLETIN OF THE RBCC Edited by Fred Sugarman-Warner and Renata Tairbekova Published since February 1919 Registered with RosKomPechat, certificate ПИ № 77-5563 of October 16, 2000 Web­si­te: www.rbcc.com

Con­tents

ISSUE 2, 2015

10

OPINION

5 Director's Note / Заметки директора CHAMBER NEWS

7

New Members

MAIN STORIES

10 Meet

Yevgeny Merkel, Partner at Excelion Partners International Ltd. and Member of the RBCC Board of Directors

13 Знакомьтесь:

Евгений Меркель, Excelion Partners International Ltd.

16 The RBCC Business Forum

22 “The smallest deed is better than the

greatest intention”, Mark Neukomm, General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton, Moscow

23 “Мельчайшее дело лучше

величайшего намерения”, Марк Ньюкомм, “Ритц-Карлтон Москва“

MEMBER NEWS

18

27 Member News RBCC EVENTS

29 RBCC Events

33 Мероприятия РБТП

29 18 Owning

Residential Property in the United Kingdom, Steven Strauss, Managing Partner at SG LLP

20 Владение жилой недвижимостью в Великобритании, Стивен Штраус, SGLLP

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