Tuesday, May 29, 2007

My question is, why would anyone invest in Russian enterprises? How confident can one be that an investment won't simply fund a Russian company's eventual nationalizaton? Ask Shell and British Petroleum how well their Russian investments are going.

*Note: The larger question of whether or not Western companies should be investing in potential enemies such as Russia and China is a larger question, and isn't discussed here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

There is a ton of interest in investing in Russia.

Here's an article with more detail

Russian Oil Report

Cheers!

Mark said...

I agree that there's a great deal of interest in investing in Russia. The question is, will Russia abide by its agreements or nationalize the investments made by foreign interests (often by inventing alleged violations of obscure terms)? It's already happening in oil, I can't imagine it won't happen in other industries.