Havas Village Russia

The division brings together the agencies of Havas Group in Russia.

It comprises
6 expert agencies in the fields of media, digital, branded content,
creativity and PR.

Havas Group is one of the largest communication groups in the world. Founded by Charles-Louis Havas in 1835, today the Group comprises more than 20,000 employees in more than 100 countries.

Havas unites brands and people throughout the world through creativity, media expertise and innovation. Havas is the most integrated company in the field of global advertising. Coming together at country level as “Villages”, the agencies of Havas create a customer-centric approach to addressing the challenges that brands face.

Since 2003 Havas Group in Russia has represented by ADV group.

The team

Dmitry Ulyashenko

CEO of Havas Media

Dmitry has an extensive track record in the advertising market; his past positions include Deputy CEO of NMi Group, that’s after being in charge of the Group’s business development for four years. In his career, Dmitry also worked at Publicis and Dentsu as a Director and Head of Business Development. In 2020, he won the 20th National Award Media Manager of Russia in the category Advertising and Marketing Communications.

Ruslan Samaev

CEO of Arena

Ruslan has been working in the Russian marketing industry for more than 20 years. He joined ADV Group in 2003 and for several years served as Development Director of MPG agency (presently Havas Media). He became CEO of Arena in 2008. Ruslan has wide experience of working with many categories and clients, such as Evalar, Lenta, Sovcombank, Rostelecom, Dr.Theiss, Valenta, Akrikhin, and many others.

Mission

The work of the division is based on the Together platform, which is designed to achieve maximum efficiency in the shortest time. Havas Village unites experts from every marketing discipline under one roof,
thereby guaranteeing the best possible client service.