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

The report published by Alfa-Bank in collaboration with the international research company MARC offers an index of small business sentiment and assesses the current state of small business in Russia.

This annual report was prepared by the Analytical Service of the National Association of Concessionaires and Long-Term Infrastructure Investors (CoLTI). The report looks at the current state of the developing market for long-term institutional investment in infrastructure via concessions in Russia by analyzing the signed and the planned concession agreements and the regulatory environment.

Summary session «Personnel for Investment Projects in the Arctic» within the framework of the Arctic Talent Acquisition Conference, which took place on November 15-16, 2021 in Arkhangelsk.

The article examines the country’s acute economic problems and substantiates the need of socio-economic development acceleration, discusses ways to achieve national development goals, and shows that national projects are important, but not the only mechanisms for achieving them. The urgent need for the formation of a full-fledged comprehensive Strategy for the socio-economic development of the country for the prospective period, as well as the available experience in developing strategic documents at the federal and regional levels, have been identified. Attention is paid to the experience of strategic development planning in St. Petersburg. The urgent need to create incentives for business development and the formation of a favorable investment climate has been identified. The article defines methods for enhancing the mechanisms for the implementation of national and regional development projects and programs, including specific methods for achieving the goals, such as conducting continuous monitoring of their achievement, using methods of foresight, regulatory guillotine, triple helix, etc.