Dimitry Afanasiev is a man on a mission. The top Russian lawyer, managing partner of a leading Moscow and St Petersburg practice consisting of 100 lawyers, wants to clean up once and for all the image of Russian business.
The popular perception in the west may be that Russian businessmen are all mega-wealthy oligarchs, who made their fortunes by being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people when their own country’s prize businesses became available, who are now on the rampage through Europe, buying up soccer clubs and virtually anything else that takes their fancy.
