The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
“I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.”
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”