How two expats found themselves at the center of Moscow’s entrepreneurial scene

It started with snacks. When Simon Dunlop and Victor Frumkin met in their mutual adoptive hometown of Moscow nearly 20 years ago, they hit it off well enough to go into business together. The Soviet Union had collapsed, yielding a vacuum in which every consumer product could be updated or reimagined; with communist politics phased out, private enterprise had come to Russia for the first time in the country’s contemporary history. Those with a mind for business only needed to thumb through the Yellow Pages for inspiration in starting their own venture. In fact, some were doing exactly that. “The…
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