To most people the terms “Russian business” and “corporate responsibility” would appear to be mutually exclusive. Russia’s private sector still carries the reputation it gained in the 1990s: of being the wild east, where the important thing was making a fast buck, no matter what the wider social cost.

Yet last year the first Russian sustainability awards were held; an increasing number of Russian companies are producing corporate responsibility reports; and the number of conferences and seminars on the topic are steadily increasing.

Things are changing, but corporate responsibility in Russia is developing a distinctive mood and tone. Russian corporate responsibility is beginning to learn from international examples, but cannot be understood out of the context of the country’s recent history.

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