There's a new breed of women in the land of caviar and oligarchs - rich,
entrepreneurial, and in charge. Here are six supernovas.
Moscow Nights
IRINA BALAKINA After her husband left her in 1993, Balakina sold her jewelry to feed her daughter. She worked as a receptionist at Reuters and ascended through the ranks. Today she runs Factiva in Russia. Her male colleagues never understood how she did it. "They thought I was mad to buy a $500 dress when I was earning $700," she says at Moscow's Turandot restaurant. "But making the right impression helped me to break into the Russian market."
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