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Spokane Slavic Business Chamber formed to connect entrepreneurs, plans resource center
Summary
Leaders say 13 Slavic-owned businesses formed a chamber to help startups, scale existing firms and reinvest locally; organizers plan a Spokane Slavic resource center within five years.
Pasha Petronov, co-founder and representative of the Spokane Slavic Business Chamber, said the group organized this year after 13 local Slavic-owned businesses joined to build connections across Spokane County.
Petronov told Spokane County Commissioner Al French that the chamber will focus on three business stages—startups, businesses seeking growth and legacy owners who want to reinvest—offering mentorship, networking and recruitment support.
The chamber’s organizers said the goal is to help Slavic entrepreneurs overcome language and cultural barriers and to connect them with non‑Slavic businesses that need talent. “It started off with me, my business joining the West Plains…
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