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| Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
Foreign investors with their eyes fixed on Russia’s continued powerful economic growth are shrugging off the recent arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The CEO of oil giant Yukos and Russia’s richest man, he was pulled in on October 25 by Kalashnikov-toting officers of the FSB (federal securities services). This might have briefly unsettled the stock market, but foreign companies selling soap and coffee to increasingly affluent Russian consumers believe their businesses will be unaffected.
“It was a flash in the pan,” says Peter Boone, the head of research at Brunswick UBS Warburg.
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