STABILITY - A KEY FEATURE OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY TODAY
German Gref, Minister of Economic Development and Trade for the Russian Federation

RUSSIA: ONE OF THE WORLD'S FASTEST-GROWING ECONOMIES
Alexander Lebedev, Chairman of the Russian National Investment Council

RUSSIAN FUNDAMENTALS: A GOOD STORY, STILL NOT FULLY PRICED IN
Philip Poole, Managing Director, ING-Barings, Julia Tsepliaeva, analyst, ING-Barings

SMALL FIRMS AND LONG-TERM GROWTH IN RUSSIA
Cristof Rhuel, Chief Economist of the World Bank in Russia

'MUCH HAS BEEN DONE, BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH'
Interview with Vladimir Preobrazhenskiy, Director of 'Club-2015'

RUSSIA: STILL MANY PROBLEMS, BUT INCREASINGLY ATTRACTIVE TO FOREIGN INVESTORS
Yevgeni Yasin, former Minister of Economy of the Russian Federation, Director of Expert Examination Institute, Scientific Director of the Higher School of Economics

RUSSIA'S EMERGENCE AS A HAVEN FOR INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS
Sergei Generalov, Chairman of the State Duma Commission on the Protection of Investor Rights, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Enterprise

FOREIGN INVESTORS MUST HELP TO BUILD A NEW RUSSIA
Geoffrey Townsend, Partner of KPMG, Russia & CIS Region

'THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE MONEY IN RUSSIA IS MUCH GREATER THAN IN THE REST OF EASTERN EUROPE.'
Interview with Andrew Somers, Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia

PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS: A KEY TO SUCCESS
Alexander Ivlev, Member of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (Moscow)

RUSSIA STRIVES TO MODERNISE
Igor Bunin, Director-General of the Centre of Political Technologies (Moscow)

TIME FOR SERIOUS WESTERN INVESTMENT IN RUSSIA
Lord Robert Skidelsky, Chairman of the Social Market Foundation (London)

WHERE IS RUSSIA GOING?
Dr. Hubertus Jahn (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Margot Light (London School of Economics)

'THE TAX REVOLUTION WAS A MAJOR STEP FORWARD, BUT THE THREAT TO THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS DANGEROUS'
Interview with Boris Nemtsov, Member of the State Duma and Leader of the Union of Rightist Forces

'THE STATE AND BUSINESS ARE BECOMING NATURAL ALLIES IN RUSSIA'
Interview with Igor Lisinenko, Member of the State Duma of Unity Party, Chairman of the Business Russia Movement

TIME TO ACTIVATE OUR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL LINKS
Tony Lloyd, Member of the British Parliament (Labour), Chairman of the British-Russian Parliamentary Group

BUILDING A LASTING PARTNERSHIP
Jean Lemierre, President of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development

'IT IS TIME FOR THE WEST TO LOOK AT RUSSIA WITH NEW EYES'
Interview with Irene Commeau, Managing Director of the European Business Club in the Russian Federation

'THE WTO IS NOT TRULY A WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION WITHOUT RUSSIA'
Interview with Mike Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation

ENTRY TO THE WTO - THE NEXT STEP ON THE PATH OF RUSSIAN REFORMS
Maxim Medvedkov, Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Head of the Russian Delegation in Negotiations with the WTO

RUSSIA AND THE WTO: MYTHS AND REALITY
Kseniya Yudaeva and Sergei Guriev, analysts at the Centre for Economic and Financial Research and Development, Vladimir Preobrazhenskiy, Director of 'Club-2015'

'MOSCOW RESEMBLES LONDON, PARIS AND NEW YORK, RATHER THAN PRAGUE OR BUDAPEST.'
Interview with Lennart Dahlgren, Director of IKEA-Russia

'FOREIGN CAPITAL IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN DEVELOPING THE RUSSIAN BANKING SECTOR'
Interview with Vladimir Goryunov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

'ONLY LARGE BANKS COMMAND RESPECT - SMALL ONES ARE USUALLY IGNORED'
Interview with Alexander Mamut, Member of the Bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Head of the Working Group on Banking Reform

AWAITING THE START OF BANKING REFORM IN RUSSIA
Vladimir Rashevsky, Chief Executive Officer of MDM-Bank

'TO HELP RUSSIAN HIGH-TECH, WE MUST IMPROVE WESTERN ATTITUDES TOWARDS RUSSIA'
Interview with Georgy Pachikov, CEO of Parallel Graphics

RUSSIAN IT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS: INVESTORS ARE COMING
Alexander Savchuk, General Director of Cominfo Consulting

MARKET COMPETITION: THE ONLY WAY TO DEVELOP RUSSIA'S ENERGY SECTOR
Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of RAO Unified Energy Systems of Russia

TREATING INVESTORS RIGHT
Eugene Shvidler, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sibneft Oil Company

DEVELOPING A STRONG ALUMINIUM SECTOR
Interview with Viktor Vekselberg, President of SUAL-Holding

RUSSIA'S MASS-MEDIA ATTRACTING MORE FOREIGN INVESTORS
Michael von Schlippe, Managing Director of Conde Nast Zao Publishing House in Russia

'BUSINESS WORLD UNDERSTANDS THAT WITHOUT INDEPENDENT TELEVISION, NORMAL LIFE IN RUSSIA IS IMPOSSIBLE'
Interview with Yevgeni Kiselyov, Director-General of TV-6

'MASS-MEDIA MUST ALWAYS BE INDEPENDENT FROM THE STATE'
Interview with Boris Berezovsky, owner of Kommersant, Novye Izvestia and Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspapers

'THE DICTATE OF THE OLIGARCHS IS NO BETTER THAN THE DICTATE OF THE STATE'
Interview with Oleg Poptsov, President of TVC Television Company, head of the Mass-Media Section at the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, former Chairman of the Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation

VLADIMIR PUTIN
President of the Russian Federation (Quotation from press-conference, December 2001)

TONY BLAIR
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

TO THE ORGANISERS AND DELEGATES OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMIC FORUM
Grigory Karasin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom

FIVE YEARS OF SHOWCASING RUSSIA TO THE WEST
Simon Joseph, Forum Director