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Potential rank

Region (subject of xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Russian Federation)

Average weighted risk index (Russia = 1)

Changes of risk level -- increase (+), decrease (-)

Rank of investment risk constituents in 1999-2000*

Changes of risk rank

2000-2001

1999-2000

2000-2001

2000-2001

2000-2001to 1999-2000

legislative**

political

social

economic

financial

criminal

ecological

2000-2001 to 1999-2000

1999-2000 to 1998-1999

1

2

65

Novgorod region

0.742

-0.013

1

19

5

7

11

50

26

1

5

2

1

1

Moscow

0.759

0.050

66

14

1

1

1

36

27

-1

0

3

4

21

Belgorod region

0.797

-0.023

20

35

11

6

12

8

39

1

0

4

3

35

Kaliningrad region

0.825

0.023

2

45

25

24

6

19

35

-1

2

5

11

2

Saint-Petersburg

0.833

-0.060

18

80

2

21

2

32

41

6

-9

6

35

38

Vologda region

0.858

-0.135

42

12

3

11

4

10

76

29

-8

7

6

10

Krasnodarsky kray

0.862

0.028

10

23

29

12

14

6

63

-1

12

8

14

34

Yaroslavl region

0.868

-0.033

3

17

8

54

17

55

49

6

-4

9

5

7

Tatarstan Republic

0.887

0.064

21

1

58

23

9

43

42

-4

-2

10

12

59

Orel region

0.897

0.005

41

3

7

22

3

37

79

2

16

11

22

43

Tver region

0.899

-0.040

9

52

10

68

60

28

8

11

-13

12

7

20

Saratov region

0.908

0.071

16

13

28

44

44

33

31

-5

6

13

17

55

Astrakhan region

0.914

-0.002

29

16

47

18

8

40

53

4

25

14

15

40