SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia — Yekaterina Trofimova spent over a decade working for the Paris office of international credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s. Now she is heading Russia’s drive to create its own rating agency — a drive that the industry's global giants say is hounding them out of the local market.
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A woman takes pictures by her smartphone at the Red Square in Moscow on June 1.