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Published: October 17th, 2016

October 17 in Moscow will host the annual meeting of the Consultative Council on Foreign Investment. This year the event will be attended by 42 of the 54 council members, including BP, Metro AG, Total S.A., Unilever.

For comparison, in 2014, in a similar event only 29 of the 51 participating companies took part.

According to economists, the end of the boycott may indicate emergency lifting of economic sanctions against Russia.

Thus, according to the economist Alexander Razuvaev the return of big investors means a quick lifting of sanctions. If, however, there will be a growing interest in Russian securities, it will be possible to say with certainty that the sanctions will be lifted in a year or two.

All of the above is absolutely not fit into the concept of liberal economists and propagandists, as well as the individual guard patriots, Russia was predicted a crash under the weight of sanctions. Fortunately, the reality once again seems to be more optimistic than gloomy forecasts by fortunetellers.

Various theories were put forward to save the Russian economy starting from the idea of "give up the Crimea" and to "change everybody".

In particular, the odious businessman Vasily Melnichenko offered perceive sanctions as evidence of the ineffectiveness of the authorities and urgently looking for new staff.

"The sanctions we have were imposed against certain individuals who, in the opinion of those who have imposed sanctions to behave badly towards the Russian people. And the sanctions imposed against the companies state that, in the opinion of Western countries, too, behave badly towards producers in Russia: they increase taxes, the price ", - said Melnichenko.

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