About the Agency

The Russian Investment Agency (RIA) is an autonomous non–profit organization, established in 2013 with the support of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Association “National Council for the Development of the Investment Climate”.

The main task of RIA is to assist in the launch and implementation of promising economic projects in Russia by attracting domestic and foreign direct investment.

RIA serves as a source of information about the investment potential of Russian regions, tools and support opportunities for investors. Since its foundation, the Agency has been a full member of the World Association of Investment Agencies founded in 1995 in Geneva (WAIPA unites 252 investment attraction agencies from 162 countries of the world).

Integration

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RIA attaches great importance to building productive cooperation with the business circles of the EAEU and CIS member states - with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, etc.

Contacts are being established with the business circles of the states that have signed free trade agreements with the Eurasec – with Vietnam, Iran, China, Singapore and Serbia, as well as the countries with which negotiations on FTA projects are underway (including Egypt, India, Israel, etc.). Cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Commission is supported as the supranational integration body, as well as its key financial institution – the Eurasian Development Bank.
RIA is an official partner of the Interstate Program of Innovative Cooperation of the CIS countries, which provides for the organization of scientific, technical and industrial cooperation, the formation of new cross-border and sectoral innovative technology clusters both within the CIS and with other countries.