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Some suggestions in the "road map" to support Russian exporters of high-tech products may work in the summer. Developers in the face of the Strategic Initiative Agency (SIA) and export insurance agency EKSAR expect that if the full range of measures proposed in the "road map" will be implemented then Russia will eventually be able to diversify their commodity exports.

Russian government had simply recently started talks regarding doable privatization of the state owned grain trade, and already France’s Louis Dreyfus, Russian investment cluster Summa and four different Russian corporations may vie for an outsized stake within the company, government-owned United Grain Co. (UGC), 2 sources aware of the matter told on Tuesday.

Russian venture capital industry comes short of successful projects - not those that have received funding and those that have already brought the money to investors. Magazine "The secret of the firm" presented four well-known companies to date, which the funds left with a profit.

Hong Kong, Netherlands, USA, UK and Australia - the best countries for business, Bloomberg experts conclude. Total list consists of 50 countries, including Russia .

Foreign trade turnover of the Customs Union member countries (Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus) with third countries amounted 913 billion dollars in 2011 that is by 33% more than in 2010.

Russian metal producers are grabbing the instant to extend sales as international demand slowly recovers from the economic crisis.

Russia's automotive market showed unprecedented growth last year, however analysts warn 2012 won’t be an equivalent with slowing sales or perhaps a fall.

In October 2008 the govt of the Russian Federation approved the country's foreign economic Strategy till 2020, that was ready by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, with the active participation of different ministries and agencies, moreover as businesses.

The Yaroslavl Region incorporates a nice potential for developing external ties - a most advantageous geographical and transport position, a well-developed business and infrastructure and a fancy programme of social and economic development figured out by the Regional Government.

It is rumored that a number of petrochemical companies in Japan are going to start a new business in Russia and they approached with a proposal to build a few plants in Eastern Siberia and the Far East that will produce polymers, plastics, various alcohols and synthetic rubbers.