ABSTRACT
Introduction UNCTAD indicates that Russia’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) stock1 was non-existent, below $1 billion, when the USSR collapsed at the end of 1991. However, a unique growth has taken place, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Russian OFDI stock multiplied by 20-fold, both in the 1990s and the 2000s. As a result, the Russian OFDI stock exceeded $400 billion in the year 2010, and peaked in 2013, when the accumulated value of Russian investments abroad exceeded $500 billion; but, in 2014, a decline was experienced. Due to the drop of 2014, Russia’s OFDI stock was on the level of 2010 at the end of 2014 (Table 15.1).
