Committee for Russian Economic Freedom

Recently Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management was on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo discussing the risks and rewards of investing in Russia. In this segment he describes the reality of investing in Russia and lengths authorities there go to expropriate private property for personal gain.

Keeping Khodorkovsky in Prison Hurts Business

Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital, whose attorney Sergei Magnitsky died in Russian custody last November was interviewed by Reuters TV about doing business in Russia.

From my own perspective, for every investor that’s there – there are probably 20 that are not there for reasons of Khodorkovsky, what happened to Sergei [Magnitsky] and other things.