In the first half of 2015 foreign direct investment from Russia overseas exceeded by 2.4x what foreigners invested in Russia, the Bank of Russia's data showed.
From January through June 2015 Russia invested $10.25 bln abroad, while foreign invested injected a mere $4.34 bln into Russia. At the same time, the net investment outflow from the Russian banking sector totaled $504 mln in January — June, $62 mln of which fell to the capital of domestic lending institutions.
Investors from Russia, in turn, cut their net investments in foreign banks by Rub 1.04 bln (including income reinvestment, equity stakes and debt instruments), but Russia, however, invested $1.75 bln in capitals of foreign banks in January — June 2015.
The bulk of foreign investments in Russia fell in the first half of 2015 to equity stakes in non-financial institutions ($13.45 bln). At the same time, during this period Russian investors were interested most of all in debt instruments of non-financial institutions (slightly more than $31.1 bln was invested).
Overall, Russia's foreign direct investment in January — June 2015 exceeded the year-ago indicator by nearly $2 bln, totaling $5.9 bln.
