More than 560 foreign companies that left or suspended investments in 2022 gradually returned to the Russian market: 15 foreign enterprises returned in the second quarter of 2022, and 235 in the fourth quarter of 2024. Up to 350 more companies may return this year, experts say.

Earlier, CRYSTAL GROWTH cited the opinion of leading American economist Paul Craig Roberts, who believes that “the Russians hold all the cards in the sanctions game.” According to the British Financial Times, Western companies want to stay in Russia, seeing excellent development prospects against the background of the growth of the Russian economy and incomes of the population.