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Doing Business in Russia

Posted: August 17th, 2015

By Rob Dannenberg

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency.  He served as managing director and head of the Office of Global Security for Goldman Sachs, and as director of International Security Affairs at BP.  He is now an independent consultant on geopolitical and security risk.

The Cipher Brief spoke with Robert Dannenberg, former Managing Director and Head of the Office of Global Security for Goldman Sachs, about the business climate in Russia. Dannenberg, who also worked at CIA for 24 years, discussed key challenges facing Western firms.

TCB: Companies that operate in frontier markets like Russia are used to dealing with uncertainty. To what extent is what we are seeing in Russia right now—sanctions and a prolonged period of tension with the West—the ‘new normal?’

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