FIRST

Realising the potential of the Russian economy

Foreword

Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE

Chairman, FIRST Advisory Council

Introduction

Rt Hon William Hague MP

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Introduction

Sergey Lavrov

Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Cooperation in the legal field

Alexander Konovalov

Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation

UK and Russia: Open for business

Dame Anne Pringle DCMG

Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Russian Federation

Russia and the UK: trading up

Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint

Minister of State for Trade and Industry

Prosper thy neighbour

Alderman Michael Bear

Lord Mayor of the City of London

Modernising Russia

Sergey Katyrin

President, Chamber of COmmerce of the Russian Federation (RF CCI)

Business to the fore

Nick Lyne

Senior staff writer, FIRST

The value of cultural exchange

Mikhail Shvydkoy

Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation

Building cultural understanding

Ekaterina Genieva

Director General, Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature

Cooperation in Space exploration

Vladimir Popovkin

Head of the Federal Space Agency, Russian Federation

From Britain with caution

Dr Alexey Gromyko

Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences and Head, Centre for British Studies

From brownfield to greenfield

Dr James Henderson

Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies

Meeting Europe"s energy needs

Alexander Medvedev

Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom and Director General, Gazprom Export

Russia on the edge of change

Richard Sakwa

Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent and Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Economic cooperation

Siman Povarenkin

Controlling shareholder and Member of the Board, GeoProMining

A welcome step forward

Stephen Dalziel

Executive Director, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce (RBCC)