The flow of direct investment into the Russian economy fell by 13.2% in 2010 compared to 2009. Foreign investment into Russia increased by 40.1%, RIA Novosti cites the Russian Statistics Service as saying.
Russia received $114.746 billion of foreign investments in 2010, $13.810 billion of which were direct investments.
Russia accumulated $300.1 billion of foreign capital in 2010, exceeding the previous year’s indicator by 11.9%. Most other investments were reverse-based – 58.3% (55.5% in late 2009), direct investments reached 38.7% (40.7%) and portfolios by 3.0% (3.8%).
Repaid foreign investments in 2010 reached $120.8 billion, exceeding the indicator in 2009 by 57.6%.
Alexey Kudrin, the Russian Vice-Premier and Finance Minister, said at an economic forum in Krasnodar that direct investment in the Russian economy fell by a factor of 1.5 in 2010, to $12-14 billion and saw a two-fold drop compared with the best years, when the indicator was equal to $27 billion.
