Mark Adomanis: Many Western firms are still cautiously optimistic about the Russian market
People visit on April 27, 2015 a cafe on a bridge at GUM, one of the oldest department stores in central Moscow.
If you read Western coverage of Russia long enough, you see that there is a really sharp divide between the views of people who work in academia, media, NGOs, and the government, and between people who work in business. This division is by no means ironclad. The famously hawkish Bill Browder did a lot of business in Moscow, while one of the primary advocates of engagement (Ambassador Jack Matlock) spent his entire career in public service.
