DUSHANBE, September 11, 2013, Asia-Plus – Cumulative mutual foreign direct investment of the CIS countries and Georgia is almost $54 billion, which has increased by 32 percent in the past three post-crisis years, according to the annual report of the Center of Integrative Research of the Eurasian Development Bank, titled “Monitoring of Mutual Investments in the CIS Countries – 2013.”

The Report notes that Russian companies still prevail among investors in the CIS countries. In 2012 they had 82.7 percent of the accumulated mutual foreign direct investment ($44.5 billion), and they carried out the majority of the largest deals.

The second largest investor in the region is Kazakhstan – $5.61 billion. Ukraine ($1.57) and Azerbaijan ($1.55) are next. Belarus ($0.40) follows in the fourth place.

The Report notes that the other CIS countries’ input is minimal. The Report underlines that “the presence of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan in the database as a source of capital is only due to threshold of mandatory analysis of mutual foreign direct investment projects of $3 million.”

The leader in attracting investments by far is Ukraine. It consists of $17.1 billion. Tajikistan has accumulated $1 billion of mutual foreign direct investment for the beginning of this year (fully due to Russian investments).