overcome - including some normalisation of relations with Russia - it will be difficult to achieve any lasting improvement of …

can claim to be among the pioneer foreign investors in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakstan and Belarus. The international financial … crisis has from September 2008 demonstrated Russia?s structural vulnerability. The comprehensive countermeasures by the … contributed strongly to an improvement of Russia?s general credit-worthiness and to a growth in foreign reserves. During the 1990s …