RUSSIA:TRAVELLER`S HANDBOOK (GORILLA GUIDES)

In 2008, Russia has 14 cities that are home to a million or more people. This fact alone is testimony to the extent to which Russia is both a major player in the world`s economy and little understood.

In just a few years, Russia has gone from being a world power in the making, to an undisputed key player on the global scene. As one of the four BRIC emerging markets, Russia`s importance for world business cannot be overlooked any longer.

Chris Gilbert - Chris Gilbert is the Russia Director of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, dividing his time between the Chamber`s offices in Moscow and St Petersburg, and travelling regularly to Russia`s major regional cities. A business development specialist with extensive experience of working with Russia and the Former Soviet Union, he first travelled to Moscow in the early 1990s, spending a year there just as the country was beginning its transition to a free market economy. A fluent Russian speaker, Gilbert regularly contributes articles to both Russian and international business publications, as well as appearing on local and national radio and television.

Evgeny Primakov - Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation