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Russia actively courts investment from “friendly” nations like India and China, focusing on sectors like tech, energy, infrastructure (PPPs), and non-Western markets through forums like BRICS and the CIS, targeting growth in specific areas like high-tech manufacturing, aviation, and automotive. Russia’s FDI investment stock is worth about US$326 billion. At the same time, Russia also actively invests in emerging economies throughout the Global South, and particularly in areas that can boost its exports. This section provides expert analysis, market trends, and risk assessment for foreign investors looking to capitalize on the inbound and outbound Russian investment market.

India
Featured October 30, 2025

India To Manufacture Russia’s SJ-100 Superjet Under Licence To Fill Domestic Passenger Demand

India and Russia have committed to a new aircraft production partnership, with India’s state-backed Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) signing a memorandum of understanding with Russia’s PJSC United Aircraft Corporation  (UAC) to produce civil commuter SJ-100 aircraft, the companies have announced. The Superjet SJ-100 is a twin-engine, narrow-body Russian regional passenger aircraft already in commercial service, […]

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China
Featured October 28, 2025

Russia, China, Update Bilateral Investment Treaty As Belt & Road Initiative Projects Look Set To Increase 

Russia and China have updated their Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), which was first agreed upon back in 2006. BITs typically provide legal guarantees for reciprocal investments, as well as containing specific preferential agreements on tax rates impacting specific detailed industries and the services sector.    Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the bill that ratifies these updates […]

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Malaysia
October 27, 2025

Russia, Malaysia Discuss Bilateral Trade Development; 2025 Trade Up 32.1% 

Russia could increase exports of energy resources, industrial equipment, and agricultural products to Malaysia and consider building small- and large-capacity nuclear power plants in the country, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk. He has been meeting with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation Fadillah Yusof at the […]

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Siberia Main
October 24, 2025

Siberian Russia’s National Highway System: The 2025-2030 Development Plan

The development of ‘territorial organisation’ of the Russian economy is one of the main goals of the new ‘Strategy for the Spatial Development of Russia 2026-2036’, with the Siberian Federal District to play a significant role in terms of Russia’s connectivity to the Far East, the Arctic, and European Russia. However, to allow Siberia to […]

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PPP
October 21, 2025

Russia’s Private Investment Appetite for Public-Private Partnerships Shows Significant Growth 

Russian private investment into its national transport development projects, financed under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreements, has reached ₽246 billion (US$3 billion) in the first nine months of 2025, according to Natalya Morshchikhina, Director of the Department of Financial and Banking Activities and Investment Development of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development. She was speaking at […]

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October 21, 2025

Russian Ports Cargo Turnover Grows by 7.9% in September 2025

The cargo turnover of all Russian seaports grew by 7.9% in September 2025 relative to September 2024, according to the SeaNews PORTSTAT analytical online service. Liquid petroleum cargo accounts for almost 50% of the cargo turnover structure of all Russian seaports. Russian exports, which accounted for 77.6% of the total cargo turnover in September 2025, […]

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Tatarstan
October 21, 2025

Tatarstan To Expand River Cargo Freight Transport Capacity To 50 Million Tonnes

Tatarstan’s river cargo transport throughput must be increased significantly by 2030, says Rustam Minnikhanov, the head of the republic. He was speaking at his annual address to the regional parliament. Minnikhanov stated that “The cargo flow by water is insufficient at the current 33 million tonnes. The goal is to increase water shipments to 50 […]

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Changchun
October 20, 2025

China and Russia To Create Massive New Changchun-Moscow Eurasian Logistics Highway

China’s Jilin Province Logistics Group and Russia’s RZD Logistics have signed an agreement that aims aim to develop a new Eurasian logistics artery along a cross-border route that will connect the city of Changchun (the administrative centre of China’s Jilin province), the Hunchun cross-border checkpoint in Jilin, and Moscow. The agreement provides for several initiatives […]

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Central Asia
October 20, 2025

Central Asia-Russia Rail Freight Transit Up 50%: New Russia-China Rail Connectivity Routes Emerging

During his speech at the Central Asia-Russia Summit in Dushanbe last week, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev highlighted the strengthening of transport and logistics ties with Russia as a priority area of cooperation. Tokayev said “For Kazakhstan, cooperation with Russia is strategically vital. In view of the geographic factor, Kazakhstan can ensure a stable connection between […]

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