Key Competitive Attractions
Invest2Russia aims to become the leading web-based interactive system that acts as an investment exchange between Russia and foreign investors. The project delivers services to potential investors and was created with the main goal of sustaining a favourable investment climate in Russia.
Russia occupies a vast area of 10, 672,000 square miles between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean, with a population almost reaching 150 million inhabitants.
Key Competitive Attractions:
- 12th highest GDP in the world
- 7th highest purchasing power parity
- Average annual growth of 7% between 1999 and 2008
- Average monthly salary of $640 (early 2008)
- One of the lowest foreign debts among the world’s major economies.
- Simple and efficient tax code since 2001, lowering the tax burden on people Russia is acknowledged for being way ahead of most other resource-rich countries for economic development, with strong traditions in education, science and industry (Bloomberg.)
- The largest number of higher education graduates of all European countries
- $1 trillion will be invested into infrastructure developments by 2020
- Responsible for producing 17% of the world's supply of crude oil, 25-30% of natural gas, 17% of commercial iron ore, 10-20% of non-ferrous metals and 6% of bituminous coal.
- Vast amounts of natural resources including oil, coal, natural gas, precious metals, minerals, diamonds and timber.
- A 23,533-mile long economic zone encapsulating the Arctic and Pacific Oceans, Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas, and providing massive reserves of fish, oil and natural gas.
- Total potential value of Russia’s mineral resources of approximately $30 trillion.
- The largest fresh-water lake in the world, Lake Baikal, attracting hundreds of environmentalists from all over the world.
- 1,067 major cities, 13 of which inhabited by one million or more people, and the largest being Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg.
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