Russia-U.S. Economic Relations: Old Problems and New Horizons

... sector ( PepsiCo ; Mars ), automotive industry ( General Motors ; CAT ; Ford ), information technologies ( IBM ; Microsoft ), and aircraft industry ( Boeing ) have became some of the most profitable in the world. However, the large scale initial investments made by most of these corporations took place in the 1990s while today they have refocused on an incremental growth strategy. In the regional profile, most American investment, 82 percent , is focused on Moscow, the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, the Arkhangelsk Region and Krasnodar territory, while recently economic cooperation has expanded with the Tyumen and Samara regions and the Republics of Tatarstan ...