OREANDA-NEWS. May 25, 2012. Foreign investments in Russia dropped 17.6% year-on-year to USD 36.5 billion in the first quarter of 2012, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement. Investment debt repaid amounted to USD 35.9 billion, down 12.3% year-on-year.

 Cumulative foreign capital invested in Russia stood at USD 323.3 billion as of the end of March 2012, up 7.4% year-on-year. Of this total, investment debt repayable accounted for 58.2%, up from 57.1% as of the end of the year-earlier period, direct investments accounted for 38.5%, down from 39.9%, and portfolio investments stood at 3.3%, up from 3%.

Russian investments accumulated abroad reached USD 106.8 billion as of the end of Q1, when Russians invested USD 31.7 billion abroad, up 8.1% year-on-year.