THIS
POST WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 18, 2007
Well, it
has been only two months of my blog existence, and is evolves on.
First, I
want to make clear several things:
WHY.
Over the last five years I have met a number of businessmen, presumably form
investor banking community in the USA that were absolutely unaware of what is
currently going on with investment business in Russia. They asked a lot of
questions, some of them were really naïve. At that time I became “pregnant”
with the idea of producing a newsletter on the subject. I did, though we never
advertized it, but surprisingly enough, we got some feedback. With the advent
of blogosphere - that idea materialized due to excellent opportunity that
Google provides. I guess that these two Google Russian geniuses put a
substantial effort to changing of the world. Financial and stock market blogs
are certainly becoming a widely read alternative source of business news and
opinion. I guess, I may add something to it.
WHAT.
So, I am writing my personal views (ref: Disclaimer) on what is going on here
in Russia. I do not pretend to provide a comprehensive overview of investment
events in the country, rather make some comments on the situations and
happenings that attracted my attention.
WHO. I
am not hiding behind anonymous fancy names and anyone who wants to contact me
may do this freely using provided coordinates. One of the mysterious
anti-Russian blog, hiding its real name, calls me March 17 as “a Russian stock
broker trying to tout the wonders of investing in the Russian market”. I am not
touting at all (I guess, I need to put in an investment banking disclaimer type
note – the one that is extremely professional at GS web-site: “GS expressly
disclaims any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose, including any warranty for the use or the results of the use of the services
with respect to their correctness, quality, accuracy, completeness,
reliability, performance, timeliness, or continued availability”. That is 100%
for me. I am not either Russophobe or Russophile, and I do not want to be
engaged in any political discussions (though I do understand the sacred notion
of Communist theory: “Politics is the concentrated expression of economy”)
TARGET.
So, my target audience is the investment banking professionals that might be
interested in what is going on here.
POLICY.
I have absolutely no objection of usage of my posts anywhere (unless I shall
change my mind sometime in the future). I do not get a penny from no one for
this blog posts, nor am I dreaming to be cited in the financial press.
HAPPENINGS.
Although I do not want to be involved in any political games, I was amused to
read the verbal “battle” of La Russophobe with the Russia Blog. I have no idea
why they decided to involve me, I have no idea what is the purpose of it, but
one thing I like of the Russia Blog – it has the names and addresses of real
people, while the other opponent is hiding behind Internet anonymity.
Due to
the excellent service of StatCounter I have a very good opportunity to track
who is visiting my blog and from where. I do not boast to be “a popular
source”, but each month sees twofold increase of visitors. And I am happy and
content that:
-
Visitors mostly come from the USA and UK, however there were some exotic parts
of the world too
- For
the last two days the hits came from the offices of Google Inc, NYSE, Citicorp,
Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs, PwC, E&Y, Parex Bank, Mellon Bank, Troika
Dialog Uk Ltd. and many others.
- Each
week I notice the increase of returning visitors.
What
next???
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