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Russia's National Welfare fund
Date
in Billion US dollars
in Billion rubles
as Percentages of GDP**
01.06.2021
189,41
13 938,08
12,1%
01.05.2021
185,87
13 825,43
12,0%
01.04.2021
182,32
13 802,12
11,9%
01.03.2021
182,06
13 552,05
11,7%
01.02.2021
179,00
13 649,30
11,8%
01.01.2021
183,36
13 545,66
11,7%
Source: CBR
5.3 FDI
In the first quarter of this year, German companies in Russia invested €1.1bn. At the end of last year, this number was negative, dropping to €370mn, Russian media reported. In the first quarter of 2021, German companies invested €1.1bn in the Russian economy, which is almost a quarter less than investments in the same period in 2020. By the end of 2020, the investment indicator of German business in Russia turned out to be negative: €370mn investments were withdrawn from the country. In 2018 direct investments of German companies in Russia amounted to €3.4bn euros. In 2019, this figure dropped to €2bn euros.
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