Russia and China forge investment links

At VTB Capital’s investment forum in Moscow this week, President Putin says Russia’s accession to the WTO will help attract investment, and CIC explains why it wants to focus on China-Russia cooperation.

Rapprochement will continue at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June and the BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Ufa in July says VTB Bank's deputy chairman.

Russia must diversify and invest rather than consume and export commodities in order to grow and strengthen, according to Vladimir Putin at VTB Capital’s conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

Russia’s VTB Capital and China’s Citic Securities are looking to break out of their local markets by helping each other intermediate growing trade and investment flows between their two countries.

Russia and China are steadily forging the financial infrastructure needed for greater cross-border investment. But there is still a long way to go for the two neighbours.