Minister for the development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Alexei Chekunkov speaks about new opportunities offered by the far east in an evolving world, the impact of the pandemic, and an elite force of management personnel

The National Rating Agency (NRA) has published its seventh annual rating of investment attractiveness of Russia’s regions. The rating includes all 85 regions of the Russian Federation.

The third special edition of Open to the World, a publication by the Russian Convention Bureau, presents answers of leading experts of the event industry to the question asked in the heading of the publication.

Where should the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East be geographically located? When will the megaproject to build a bridge from the mainland to Sakhalin be completed? And have you claimed your own free land plot under the Far Eastern Hectare programme? Andrey VANDENKO, a senior interviewer at the TASS news agency, asked Alexander KOZLOV, the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East, these questions and more, exclusively on behalf of the EEF magazine.