M&A Attractiveness Index 2017: Russia: Count the Roubles Not the Politics
Journal: City Research Online (City University London)
Year: 2017

An invasion of the Crimea, interference in the Ukraine, a large list of companies blacklisted overseas, concerns over the openness of the next election and accusations of interference in the US presidential election. Not a good time to invest in Russia then. But Russia is a country of vast natural resources, is the world’s largest nation by geographic site, has a large population (144 million) and has one of the cheapest stock markets in the world (trading on just 7x historic earnings). So, do t