hello mr curtis welcome to the show thank you thank you very much i welcome to moscow by the way you're not a frequent guest though in this city yeah. for five minutes. what was the motives while we talk about the intrigue later bet well i just said that you got that proposal you admitted it and went to the states what was the motive for you to see yes to bali you know it's an amazing experience because what is not just the largest company in the world it's from my point of view the company all sort of for great purpose it's the largest company in the world i mean among all companies existing in the world you're exactly right. it's interesting that. much is not the company but the country will be a nineteenth largest economy in the world so this is bigger than whatever coca-cola . bowing before according to their revenue much bigger than anybody else and for profit for example people. easier to understand the scale of the company their budget of the company for this year is about ten or fifteen percent larger than the budget for fresh integration because there is a motive to go to for a

mr curtis we started talking about the difference of making business in russia making business in the united states well you said that knowing it better than i and i do and this is only natural you see russian business is changing and really becoming more like what you can witness elsewhere in the world is that true is does that mean that that russia is catching up very quickly because it's only been twenty years of experience for guys like you and you already catching up first of all even less than twenty years of the progress again it's amazing to hear a lot of public companies in the retail industry in russia. credit in the london stock exchange or on russian stock exchanges and that the company is. learning how to make business where way with transparency of accounting with more focus on the interest of customers and again it's a huge gap of russian retail and what you can find in very well developed countries but this distances. decreasing where europe. well we have already mentioned that retail in russia is living through hard times in europe too. what about america you said you