Friday, May 28, 2010

Search for Putin's friends abroad (global databases exercise)

Global databases about companies and people (such as LexisNexis) are really wonderful. Unfortunately they are too expensive that's why Russian journalists do not use them widely. But I have got the opportunity and started my databases practice with the global search for the companies linked with the friends of Russian prime-minister Vladimir Putin.
The results are fantastic! Just the superficial search brings several companies in Europe.
Some of them were created with the huge investments and accumulate big summs of money doing business with Russian state controled companies.
And it seems that some big and famous foreign companies found good partners among Putin's friends.
Maybe these guys are talented entrepreneurs? Or for big foreign companies it is much safe to do business in Russia with such partners?
I have sent some requests. Hope to see what they are thinking about that.

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