Given that, in the framework of the 2005 Italian Promotional Program for foreign trade, the Russian Federation had been chosen as the priority Country, the Project Russia of Regions was conceived in order to finally facilitate Italian economic actors and those companies interested in the Russian market, to know more about its huge regional dimension, so that the Italian investment initiatives could seize also, and even more, the opportunities deriving from these territories and their emerging economies.

The project finally led to the implementation of the First Italian Official Web Portal Focused on the Different Russian Regions supported by a database in Italian containing information about the different Russian regional markets: not only statistics and macroeconomic indicators, but also some useful services such as business opportunities and data on the most attractive factors of the single Russian Regions. The Portal Russia of Regions represented, at the same time, a real opportunity also for all the 86 Russian regions, who could promote themselves and open new collaboration and trading channels with an increasing number of Italian economic operators and Regional Administrations.

Type of service

Project design, organization and management.

Coordination of project activities and local contact points.

Database implementation: database logical and technical design, collection of information, documents and news regarding the Russian Regions from a wide range of sources, selection of the collected data, translations, data inputting.

Design, publication and management of the website: graphic, logical and technical design of the website and of the users interface.

On-line and off-line promotion of the initiatives and of the “Russia of Regions” website.