OREANDA-NEWS. February 25, 2013. General director of the FBK Economic and Law School (ELS) Sergey Pyatenko took part in online-conference of portal Finam.ru "Image of Russia and foreign investments – global financial centre of steadiness". Improvement of business environment in Russia, efforts to attract the foreign investors, foreign funds to the Russian market, capital flight from the country in 2013, - these and many other themes worried the participants of this discussion.

When answering the question whether it is possible the higher credit, Pyatenko in particular claimed: "I doubt it`s possible in short-term prospects. There is no confidence yet, that the situation in the world leading economies has already finally moved toward the total overcoming the crisis. Although many things point at that. The rating of Russia can be raised in the mid-term prospect". Evaluating the prospects of the stock market the economist has noted that if the Russian GDP as the government planned would grow this year at the level of 3.5 per cent, "it is most likely that the stock market would grow too".

Referring the image of Russia by eyes of foreign investors Pyatenko has noted that in the competitiveness ratings we took places approximately corresponding to our level of development (from the 50th to the 60th among nearly 220 countries). "These ratings certainly besides real state of things reflect some "perceptual effect". So we need work on improvement of both", - general director of the FBK ELS summarized. As well as leading expert of the structural research centre of the Gaidar Institute of economic policy Mikhail Khromov, chief analyst of Nordea bank Valery Evdokimov, expert of the economic expert panel Artur Dolgopolov and analyst of FINAM Anton Soroko took part in this online-conference.