How a long-time Swiss winemaker created a premium Russian wine.

In the run-up to SPIEF, Tatsuo Yasunaga, President and CEO of Mitsui & Co, one of the largest investment companies in Japan and the oldest in the Russian market, tells about the terms of business development between the countries.

In this publication, the Institute of Natural Monopolies Research (IPEM) summarizes the performance of Russia’s manufacturing industries in March 2020. Against a backdrop of unfavorable global economic environment coupled with measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, demand growth was registered in low-tech industries only. In extractive industries, the drop in demand is the sharpest on record since 2009.