Advocating interests of Russian business groups abroad in the context of geopolitical risks

Abstract

Current article analyses transnational lobbying by Russian business groups in the face of new geopolitical risks. Over the past three decades, Russian interest groups have been actively integrated into the mechanisms of transnational lobbying, promoting and advocating their interests on the levels of national and supranational jurisdictions. Today Russia's place in the system of transnational lobbying is undergoing fundamental changes. After February 24, 2022, traditional foreign economic partners, such as the European Union, the United States, and a number of Asian countries, began to break their economic ties with Russia, and Russian business began to lose long-developed and studied markets and political contacts. This poses the question of diversifying lobbying routes and searching for new trading partners. The author proposes his typology of the stages of development of Russian lobbying abroad, considering current realities. The author analyzes how the strategies and directions of Russian business groups abroad developed and shifted and how this was connected with changes in the general geopolitical situation. The article discusses the specifics of the current stage, which involves a radical change in the direction of promoting the interests of Russian business groups, analyzes in detail the potential for lobbying of Russian interests in China, and provides individual recommendations for improving the lobbying strategies of Russian companies.