As 2015 draws to a close, most general managers of international companies based in Russia will be scratching their heads when planning their budgets for next year.

An increasing number of our recruitment projects are replacements either for underperforming staff or involve management looking to reduce expenditure.

The current expat exodus from Moscow is well-known, yet the subject of Russians leaving Russia has received little attention from the media.

The past year has seen a considerable exodus of expatriate, white-collar workers from Russia, and in most cases this has been involuntary.

Typically, logic dictates that changing your job during a boom makes the most sense: The majority of employers are in hiring mode and there are more vacancies than good candidates available.

Expats in Russia often struggle with cross-­cultural communication. Here is a classic example: I spotted a colleague eating an ice cream one day and asked, "Ira, where did you buy the ice ...

Native speakers of English are regularly lambasted for their unwillingness or point-blank refusal to learn a foreign language. The most common excuse is that even if you do try, everyone will just ...

Don't succumb to the temptation of hiring people you like or get along with best. You can socialize with friends in your spare time.

A generation has now passed since the Soviet collapse. Today's university graduates have grown up without witnessing life under the old regime, so their impressions of Soviet days can be based only ...

Russians are always curious how they and their country are perceived by foreigners, especially from the West. The general misconception is that Russia is cold and gray for 12 months of the ...