About Russia

Russia is apparently quite a big topic here. It is often mentioned on lectures 8I think even more often than in Ukraine).

Basically, the 2 main pretexts are:

• How much money Finnish companies lost in Russia just after the collapse of the USSR and economic recessions in the 90s and how it led to considerable changes in the structure of Finnish business.
• How Russian markets are developing now and how Finnish companies are trying to benefit from that.

The other day one of the AIESECers attended some business conference about the perpectives of development of Russian business. Among other interesting things was the fact that today, the biggest country in terms of investing into Russian economy is Canary Islands. Which basically means that Russian people are returning money to their home country recognising its improvments in economic development.

It reminded me of many jokes about "new Russians" :)