CLOSER TO BUSINESS EDUCATIONAL PROJECT

VTB and Active Learning launched Closer to Business – the federal educational platform for entrepreneurs.  Alexander Linnikov and Anton Minakov took part in the creation of the new educational project to help people who wish to start their own businesses.

Closer to Business is an online platform where everyone can get free practical training on personnel management, finance, law, business marketing, and sales. Information is presented in separate blocks, which allows to study all the topics of the program gradually. L&P attorneys authored the legal block.   Alexander Linnikov became the mentor of the law section.  On Closer to Business the trainees will find his personal advice on legal aspects of establishing and operating of a small business.

Linnikov & Partners specializes in business law and pursues analytical, academic, and educational activities in the sphere of support and development of small business in many regions of Russia for many years. In 2015 in Saransk, the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Alexander Linnikov and Alexander Salmov published The Handbook of an Entrepreneur.  In 2016 famous researcher of Internet technologies Fiodor Virin joined the authors to work on a new book: Small Entrepreneurship of Russia in International Business and E-commerce.