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.
Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, has had the contracts it possessed with now unfriendly countries all terminated, according to First Deputy General Director Andrei Yelchaninov. The company, with multiple subsidiaries, had been involved with everything from building the International Space Station (ISS) main capsules, ferrying astronauts to the ISS, putting other countries satellites in orbit, monitoring […]
The Indian government has approved a proposal for building a large deep water port on its western coast to connect it with major global trade networks and handle trade with Russia, New Delhi has announced. The port, to be built at Vadhavan in the Maharashtra state, would aid trade flow through the International North-South Transportation […]
Russia expects to continue fruitful cooperation with the Central African Republic (CAR) in the military and military-technical spheres following the UN Security Council’s decision to lift the arms embargo on the country, Alexander Bikantov, the Russian Ambassador to Bangui has said. “We count on the continuation of fruitful military cooperation in the interests of our […]
The Ob, Irtysh, Lena, and Yenisei Rivers are all to be developed to access the Northern Sea Route Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) and Rosatom are to jointly create logistics hubs on the Ob, Irtysh, Lena and Yenisei rivers, with the aim to give improved access to the Northern Sea Route […]
Amur, Ussuri Rivers give Pacific Ocean access to China’s landlocked Heilongjiang Province Russia and China are developing cargo transport corridors under the joint “River-Sea” development programme for the first time. The Chinese deep-water, Manjita river port is located at Fuyuan city in Heilongjiang, with the Manjita port having access to the Amur (Heilongjiang) and Ussuri […]
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The sixth Russia-China Energy Business Forum (RCEBF) has been taking place in Moscow, with over 500 politicians, heads of major companies in the energy and related industries, scientists, experts and analysts attending. Russia and China discussed issues of cooperation related to energy and the supply of hydrocarbons. The RCEBF has been held annually since 2018 […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered plans to be developed for major state-run companies to relocate their headquarters from Moscow to other parts of the country. The move is aimed at boosting regional budgets, help alleviate labor shortages, and reflect the growing importance of Russian development towards Asia. De-centralization would also boost the economies of […]
Western brewers market exit actually resulted in a domestic profit boosts for Russia In good news for thirsty Asians, and bad news for Denmark’s Carlsberg and the Netherlands Heineken, Russia’s Agroexport Center has identified the most promising markets for Russian beer exports and the regions of the country that have the greatest export potential in […]
Russian and foreign investors are starting to become more savvy over tax incentives on offer in Russia’s Special Administrative Regions (SAR), increasing their investments by almost a third since the beginning of this year. The two SAR that Russia currently has are sited in Kaliningrad, in Western Russia, and Russky Island, Vladivostok in the Primorye […]
Oleg Kozhemyako, the Governor of Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky territory, has stated that a special port for use by Belarusian exporters will be developed on Russia’s eastern seaboard. The announcement was made after Kozhemyaako met with Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus in Minsk earlier this month. Chinese developers are also interested in the construction […]
Sergey Glazyev, the Eurasian Economic Union Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics, has been taking part in the 11th Russian-Kyrgyz Interregional Conference in Krasnoyarsk. The event is annually attended by heads of regions, entrepreneurs, representatives of business development and support institutions of the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). These include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan […]
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