Sergey Anatolyevich Petrov

“If we want serious investors to stay [in Russia] for a long time, we need changes. If we send no signal that the country is on its way to democratization, the lion’s share of western investors won’t be interested to enter the Russian market.”

“It’s clear that, as long as we do not have competition between political parties, we could not have any effective campaigns against corruption.”

“Until officials know that in case they take bribes they will be kicked the hell out of their positions, then, of course, there won’t be any change.”

“It is not even about the impossibility of economic and political reforms under this corrupt bureaucracy. It doesn’t let through any signals, including orders from above. All good intentions, even if they appeared, would stick. The only thing that works like clockwork is all-Russian stealing.”

51st place in Russian Forbes list, 2009; 50th place in “Vlast I Dengi” (“State and money”) list, 2010.

On 2 December 2007 he was elected Deputy of the State Duma.

In 2004 he resigned as the President of the Company and handed control over to employed managers. He was still responsible for ROLF’s long-term development strategy.

In August 1991 he founded his own company ROLF Group.

In 1989 became Director of car rental department at Rozek.

In 1987 he graduated from Soviet Trade Institute with a Degree in Economics of Labor.

In 1982 he was dismissed from the Soviet Army at the rank of Major and expelled from The Communist Party of the Soviet Union for anti-Soviet propaganda and participation in secret democratic organizations.

In 1975 he achieved the rank of an officer and special qualification of a pilot-engineer. He worked as an instructor in the Military Aviation School in Orenburg.

After graduating from school in 1971 he entered The Higher Military Aviation School in Orenburg.

Sergey Anatolyevich Petrov (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Петро́в ; born 1954, Orenburg) is a Deputy of the State Duma, member of Spravedlivaya Rossiya political party, member of the Budget and Taxes State Duma Committee. Founder and beneficiary of the ROLF Group (the first diversified automotive business in the Russian market), President of the ROLF Group of Companies until 2004.