CONTENTS

Volume 11, 2007

INVESTMENT CLIMATE

Economical situation in Russia, 2007

Materials of the 21st session of the Foreign investment advisory council for Russia held on October 15, 2007.

INVESTMENT MARKET

Oleg SUKHAREV. Investments and creation of new equipment and machinery

The author believes that complex economic problems are to be tackled within the strategic program of developing the state and economy, basing strictly on economic analysis and calculations.

Marina MILYAEVA. Russian insurance market: opportunities for foreign capital

Recommendations and information on foreign insurance business will foster a normal integration process in Russia, mate the Russian legislation with international agreements, and ensure the increase of the Russian insurance market capacity and protect it against foreign expansion.

Boris SAFRONOV, Boris MELNIKOV, Iya KUDRYAVTSEVA. Investment market: the situation in the 1st half year 2007

Leonid RATHKIN. Big business investments: high responsibility investments

Various social groups differ in their comprehension of and attitude to social business responsibility. Small and medium business is less liable usually to criticism than big business. The reason of that is explained in this article.

INVESTMENT TECHNOLOGIES

Lev SHAMIS. Latent inside debt of production corporations

Since 1991 in all production structures of the Russian economy a considerable under-amortization of fixed capital took place. This under-amortization can be considered as an adjourned latent inside debt of a company.

REFERENCE and ADVICE

Alla FLYOROVA. New in nanotechnology legislation