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.
Transport connectivity and development of renewable energy can become driver of sustainable development in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), according to Arzybek Kozhoshev, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Commission. He was speaking at the Global Mountain Dialogue conference in Bishkek, dedicated to the prospects for sustainable development of mountain regions. […]
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, met with Bolivian Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa Lunda on the sidelines of the BRICS Foreign Ministers Council meeting in Rio de Janeiro on April 29. Bolivia has recently joined the BRICS as a Partner nation. The Bolivian government has been facing pressure over its awarding of strategic lithium mining […]
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency head, Dmitry Bakanov has said that Russian technologies can be applied in building India’s national space station, and negotiations on this matter are underway. Bakanov said that “We are in talks, including with Indian partners, to help them with their space station using our technologies.” The Indian Space Research Organisation has […]
Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC), a division of state corporation Rostec, have drawn up a plan to modernize Uzbekistan’s gas pumping infrastructure by updating more than 20 gas compressor units (GCU), according to UEC Engineering LLC CEO Andrei Vorobyov. Uzbekistan is the third largest natural gas producer in the CIS and the second largest consumer. […]
Egypt’s parliament has approved several bills that authorize the Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry to enter into contracts with a number of foreign, including Russian companies to explore and develop its oil and gas fields. South Valley Egyptian Petroleum Holding Company and Lukoil Overseas Egypt secured approval for a concession to explore for and produce […]
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The projection for Russian freight shipments along the planned Trans-Afghan Railway is expected to be completed in 2026, but it is tentatively estimated at 8 million-15 million tonnes per year, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov has stated. He was speaking at the Innoprom: Central Asia exhibition in Uzbekistan. Manturov said that “The transport […]
The International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), which links Russia to the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia, is set to increase its carrying capacity by 8.3 million vehicles per year, according to the Russia Federal State Budgetary Institution, Rosgranstroy. All major construction and reconstruction works are expected to be completed by 2030, which includes […]
Russia and Iran are create an association to unite ports and shipping companies of the two countries according to the Russian Ministry of Transport, who announced the plans following talks between Dmitry Zverev, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia, and Saeed Rasouli, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran. The […]
Russia and China have conducted navigation studies for the development of shipping lanes on the border sections of the Amur, Ussuri, Argun, Sungacha and Lake Khanka rivers, according to the Amur basin of inland Waterways (FBU Administration Amurvodput). The recent 66th meeting of the Joint Russian-Chinese Commission for Navigation on Border Rivers agreed on planned […]
Uzbekistan’s atomic energy agency Uzatom, Russia’s Rosatom Group, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) division CNOS, and Shanghai Electric have been holding negotiations on building turbine equipment and assessing the prospects of adapting it for a nuclear power plant (NPP) project in Uzbekistan. Uzatom has stated that “In the course of the negotiations the parties discussed […]
Rosatom Central Asia have stated that the first deliveries of the equipment for a wind farm in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul region is scheduled to be delivered in the second half of 2025, while construction will start in 2026. Kyrgyzstan’s Energy Minister Taalaibek Ibraev said that “We are starting construction of a wind farm with capacity of […]
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