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.
Sri Lanka has stated it is interested in joining the BRICS group as views it ‘as a platform to spur its economic growth.’
Neighbouring India is the 2026 BRICS chair and will host annual BRICS summit in late summer. It is possible Sri Lanka could be invited to become a partner nation.
Russian Railways holds the concession for the Armenian South Caucasus Railway, however due to geopolitical differences between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkiye, large parts of the track have fallen into disrepair. Armenia wants Russian railways to pay for its restoration and then exit the project as Russian Railways are sanctioned and Yerevan says this is damaging its national transit trade potential as it geopolitical relations have now improved.
Landlocked Belarus, rubbing up against political and security barriers to the West and South, is looking North and East as it wishes to continue to develop its own Pivot to Asia. This includes a specific Belorussian container terminal dedicated to Belarus imports and exports at Murmansk port in the Russian Arctic.
Russia and Azerbaijan have been discussing increasing their bilateral trade, and specifically within the International North-South Transport Corridor. Mutual trade has been increasing yet both sides wish to accelerate this.
The Future Technologies Forum has been taking place in Moscow, a premium annual event that showcases and discusses the technologies of tomorrow, the impacts these may have and how to adapt to them. President Putin usually gives the Plenary speech, a signal of how important these issues are to Russia’s development. This year’s theme was […]
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The relaunch of railway transport along the Skovorodino-Reynovo railway line is scheduled for 2026, according to Alexey Mestnikov, the Deputy General Director for Strategic Development of Yakutia Railways. This railway line leads to the Dzhalinda mixed checkpoint on the border with China and was mothballed in the early 2000s due to low freight traffic. Now […]
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar have been discussing additional prospects for cooperation in their bilateral oil and gas, as well as the development of nuclear energy, at meetings held in Istanbul. Novak stressed Türkiye’s important role as a transit country for oil and gas […]
Russia and Belarus plan to sign an agreement to build a third power unit at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (BelNPP) by the end of this year, according to Belarusian Energy Minister Denis Moroz. He stated that “There is an instruction from Belarusian President Lukashenko on the need for another unit at the Belarusian Nuclear […]
The creation of a unified Special Economic Zone (SEZ) covering the entire Siberian Federal District, with common tax and investment preferences for each region within it, could become a driver for Siberian development, according to Elena Bezdenezhnykh, the vice president of JSC Rusal Management. She said that “We have 59 SEZs in the country. The […]
The Russian company MK-Polymer , a resident company of the Seversk development territory in the Tomsk Region, supplied a batch of ethylene-propylene rubber to Kazenergokabel, the largest cable factory in Kazakhstan, and conducted operational tests on it, the company said. The joint work was aimed at testing the use of new materials in cable production. […]
Part Two of a Seven-Part Series in which we document the rise of the new outbound Russian entrepreneurial investor. From 2022 onward, Russia’s entrepreneurs and companies have been reshaping their foreign economic engagements in response to geopolitical realignments. As Western sanctions constrained access to traditional Western markets, Russia’s business community began to seek deeper footholds […]
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