It was just after 9 on a mid-May morning in 2011 when Ruslan Telkov got into his car and headed toward one of his upholstery company’s warehouses near Moscow. His parents had warned him not to start his own business, that only frustration and heartache awaited, if not worse. But it was not the 1990s anymore, he told them; the days of bandit capitalism in Russia were over. “I decided it’s what I wanted, and that was that,” he said.
New York Times: Signs of a Russian thaw (toward business)
Russia's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov (L) and Economic Development Minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, attend a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, on December 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
