Sverdlovsk Region is not among top ten territories for SMEs

December 14, 2012. The rating agency Expert RA came up with the 17th rating of Russian federal constituencies’ investment appeal for 2011-2012. Moscow Region, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Territory, and Tatarstan kept their top positions in the rating and their levels of A12. These constituencies have some of the highest potential indices and some of the lowest risk level figures, the agency reports. ‘The rating is indicative of the takeoff of the third wave of the constituencies’ investment appeal growth, which is characterized by three parameters: proximity to economic centers,

December 11, 2012. Yekaterinburg proved No.1 city among those with population over 1m for doing business. This year, Yekaterinburg was ahead of 18 cities with population over 1m, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, and Chelyabinsk. Sverdlovsk Region was in the middle of a similar rating for Russian Federation constituencies and ahead of both Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The index of how easy it is to do business in the Russian constituencies was compiled by Opora Rossiyi, the All-Russian SME organization. The rating was based on the findings of the annual research on the conditions and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 8, 2015. Sverdlovsk Region is not one of Russian constituencies that are ‘successful tourist territories’, the Information Communications Center Rating reports. ‘Our center relied on the opinions shared by the expert community, namely, those from Otdykh V Rossiyi Media Group (the company behind the magazine on domestic travel by the same name) and the online portals Russian Tourism and Tourism Investments. The Russian constituencies were evaluated on the basis of nine different criteria, including the overall number of hotel rooms per capita, the number of locals

February 7, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region was given the 8th position in the federal constituencies appeal rating. Sverdlovsk Region's share of its own income was 79%, the share of debts was 12.9%. In terms of budget rating, however, the constituency was only given the 17th position; it was also assigned the 54th place in the economic development rating, Bank Saint Petersburg's research says. 'The federal budget revenues went down because of the recession, so we have reasonable grounds to believe that some areas might be in trouble due to less subsidies from the federal budget. In

June 10, 2014. Sverdlovsk Region remained among the mid-range sustainability federal constituencies in May 2014. The Mid-Urals were given 6,0 points all in all, which is the same figure it was awarded last month, Petersburg Policy Fund's rating states. Among the factors that made a positive impact on Sverdlovsk Region's rating was a presentation of the constituency's potential to representatives of ninety different countries at the Russian Federation Foreign Affairs Ministry and a business forum that was coordinated jointly with Uzbekistan in Ashkhabad. The news relating to the