B&Q is to trial a small store format in Moscow next year to help it push further into the £16bn-a-year Russian DIY retail market. Peter Hogsted, chief executive of Kingfisher’s international operations outside France, said the smaller format store, to be opened in Moscow in about a year, would help Kingfisher forge a meaningful presence in the city where property was expensive and sites harder to come by. “This is our ticket into Moscow,” he said, adding that Kingfisher had just one store there on the outskirts of the city.