Alexander Ivlev: Concerning China’s plans to build the logistic and economic system of the Belt and Road Initiative and Russia’s role in this project

The InfraOne Research study assesses the state of infrastructure related to environmental activities, as well as government policy and investment plans for the development of this area in Russia.

An economist from Moscow will be growing asparagus in Primorye and selling it in the capital. Why is this a profitable plan?

Where should the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East be geographically located? When will the megaproject to build a bridge from the mainland to Sakhalin be completed? And have you claimed your own free land plot under the Far Eastern Hectare programme? Andrey VANDENKO, a senior interviewer at the TASS news agency, asked Alexander KOZLOV, the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East, these questions and more, exclusively on behalf of the EEF magazine.

Back in December 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin defined the development of the Russian Far East as a national priority for the 21st century. That was the beginning of the latest chapter in the history of the region, which, since the Tsarist era, has been seen as not just Russia’s window onto Asia, but as the key to the formation of the entire Eurasian space.