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Report Code: COUN-0002
Period: 1980 - 2003
Country: Russia
Report Length: 23 Pages		 Year of Publication: 2004
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…MAJOR INDUSTRIES IN RUSSIA
Russia is one of the most industrialized of the former Soviet Republics. Apart from its resource-based industries (oil, natural gas, coal, minerals and metals), the country had developed large manufacturing capacities over the decades. Apart from this, the country inherited a majority of the erstwhile Soviet Union’s defense industrial base. Hence, manufacturing remained one of the leading industrial sectors in the country, apart from the resource-based industries…

• Energy
• OIL
• Natural Gas
• Coal
• Power
• Machine Building
• Metal
• Food Processing

…FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI)
FDI in Russia has been very low (total as well as per capita) as compared to other emerging markets (See Tables III & IV for FDI figures). Despite being the largest potential consumer market of Europe and having a huge base of natural resources, Russia failed to attract major strategic investors from abroad…

…FOREIGN TRADE

In 2003, Russia was the world’s seventeenth largest exporter of goods and the twenty-eighth largest importer. It was also the largest exporter of goods outside the World Trade Organization (member countries). In 2003, the Russian foreign trade turnover amounted to $209.2 billion, an increase of 24% over 2002…

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