INVESTMENT ACTIVITY OF FOREIGN MULTINATIONALS IN RUSSIA
The paper studies the operation of foreign transnational corporations in Russia. Recently, foreign transnational corporations are showing increasing interest in different sectors of the Russian economy. the number of businesses owned by foreign companies continues to expand in Russia. Many foreign companies are present in various sectors of the Russian economy and seek to expand their operations in the country by investing more and more foreign capital and improving the existing businesses and creating new ones. Foreign investment is very important for the Russian economy: they create new jobs and new technologies, facilitate the spread of modern management and organizational methods at Russian enterprises, contribute to the Russian budget, increase the volume of foreign trade. The paper discusses the activities of foreign multinationals in Russia, reveals the importance of attracting foreign investment in Russia, identifies the factors that raise or lower the investment attractiveness of the Russian economy, shows and analyzes the positive and negative consequences of the activities of transnational corporations. The author presents and analyzes various cases of cooperation between Russia and foreign multinationals.