Russia’s Support for Private Investment in the Arctic: A New Approach. Key Quotes

The report by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies presents an analysis of the impact that international freight traffic barriers have on logistics, transit potential, and development of transport corridors traversing EAEU member states.

Following SPIEF 2019, the St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON) with support from the Roscongress Foundation has published a special issue of the Izvestiâ Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo èkonomičeskogo universiteta (Journal of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics). The special issue of the journal contains a collection of scholarly articles which summarize and conceptualize the results of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2019).

The publication by the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO reviews foreign experience with medium-tonnage LNG projects and evaluates the potential for their development in Russia. Also, the authors discuss the prospects and necessary conditions for the development of the domestic LNG market and exports of medium-tonnage LNG.

The article based on the discussion materials conducted by the Russian Bar Association in conjunction with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation at the SPIEF 2019 analyzes the main problems faced by entrepreneurs doing business in Russia. An assessment is made of the quality of Russian jurisdiction in terms of the comfort of the investment climate, ensuring the protection of the rights of both Russian and foreign investors.