Russia - International Sales

Inhalt

• History 3

• Political Criteria 4

• Criteria related to domestic economy 6

• BIP 6

• Inflation 7

• Demografische Entwicklung 7

• Bedeutende Wirtschaftssektoren 9

• Industrie 9

• Landwirtschaft 9

• Services 10

• Labor Market 10

• Criteria Related to Forgein Economy 11

• Wichtigste Handelspartner 11

• Currency 12

• Liabilities 12

• Rating 13

• Zahlungsmoral 13

• Geschäftsbeziehungen 14

• Marktforschung 14

• Vertriebswege 14

• Verflechtung mit Österreich 14

• Export 14

• Import 15

• Investitionen 15

• Opportunities for Austrian companies Exports of goods 16

Exports of services 17

Business start-up, financing and shareholdings 17

Technology and research 18

Opportunities 20

History

Russia is rich in history. After the kingdom of Kievan Rus and 200 years of Tatar-Mongolian domination, Russia had been ruled by Tsars from the mid- 16th Century. In 1917 Wladimir I. Lenins lead the October revolution and the last Tsar resigned.

From 1922-1991 Russia was part of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. A few famous leader personalities of this period were Chruschtschow and Gorbatschow. During this period a single-party system dominates and Russia was organized as a planned economy.

Under the first President of Russia Boris N. Jelzin (1991-2000) it came to a new constitution, which the Russian Federation constituted as a democratic republic. The centrally-planned economy was transformed into a market economy, price liberalisation and privatisation of public companies followed. In 1998 a debt and currency crisis occurred, which lead to the breakdown of the Russian bank system.

After Jelzin resigned in 2000 Wladimir W. Putin was elected to the 2nd president of the Russian Federation. With the help of economic recovery Putin succeeds in enforcing market reforms. Two