- How do Russians think?
- What do they consider achievement?
- How do they see the individual self?
- What motivates Russian people and how is their performance rewarded?
- How is Russian society organized?
- What is the relationship of the members of this culture to time issues?
- What culture barriers are affecting the interactions between me and my business partner?
- How can we build and maintain trusting business relationships with one another?
- How has the outlook on life in a given culture be showed by history?
- What could the cultural practices of my business partner be?
- What values might my business partner be stressing in his behavior?
- What is our cultural common ground?
After finding the answers to these questions, everyone can have an idea of Russia cultural background. In what concerns me, after studying Russia’s history and culture, I can affirm that I am convinced that the roots of negative attitude towards Russia go back in history. Of course the main reason of this problem can be the isolation from the rest of the world which for centuries was the characteristic feature of our country’s course of development.
