Impact of Anti-Russian Sanctions on the Dynamics of Foreign Investments in the Far Eastern Federal District
https://doi.org/10.31249/kgt/2025.03.04
Abstract
The objective of the study is to identify and assess the impact of the Western sanctions policy on the long-term dynamics of the volume and structure of FDI in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) since the early 2010s. The first part of the article examines the stages of the development of the sanctions policy, the formation of its subjects, goals and objects, as well as its methods and mechanisms. The second part of the article is devoted to a synchronous comparative analysis of the stages of the sanctions policy and changes in the volume of FDI inflow and accumulation in the FEFD, their geographical structure, and sectoral distribution. The final section highlights the key changes in the dynamics of cross-border investment in the FEFD and puts forward assumptions about the factors behind these changes and the role of the sanctions policy among them. It is concluded that the damage caused to the inflow and accumulation of FDI in the FEFD by the sanctions was relatively smaller than at the national level, which was largely due to the system of Far Eastern development institutions created in the second half of the 2010s. At the same time, the preferential policy was unable to prevent the concentration of FDI in the extractive sector of the macroregion and the rapidly increasing dependence of its economy on the movement of Chinese capital.
Keywords
sanctions policy,
foreign direct investment,
investment policy,
development institutions,
investment structure,
Far Eastern Federal District
Supporting agencies: The research is accomplished under the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 24-28-00605, https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-00605/
About the Author
A. A. Kireev
Far Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton A. Kireev, PhD (Political Sciences), Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science
Sukhanova Street, 8, Vladivostok, 690950
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Kireev A.A. Impact of Anti-Russian Sanctions on the Dynamics of Foreign Investments in the Far Eastern Federal District. Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law. 2025;18(3):63-83. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31249/kgt/2025.03.04
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