Russia is a great country with huge base of natural resources. Good state of market during the last years and improvement of government system have caused a considerable investment raise and State accumulation of capital. On the 4th April 2012 Gold-currency reserves of Russian Federation averaged $513,9bln. Russia got third place on this index, with only China and Japan ahead.

State accumulations grow faster then abilities to effectively invest them. Since 2005 Russia pays off external dept in big volumes and before time. But accumulations keep growing. Therefore government has worked out and started applying national projects of State development. Mostly these projects are devoted to road building (take into consideration that Russia is huge), oil-gas pipelines, energy-generating capacities, enterprises and sport facilities. For example, on June 2007 United Olympic Committee has elected Sochi as The City Of Winter Olympic Games 2014. Up to $40bln are to be invested into Sochi city infrastructure. If the decision is positive the sum will increase twice. In addition, The State actively stimulates births rate growth, growth of consumer capacity of Russians, inflow of immigrants and foreign manpower.

It should be noted, that Russia is highly centralized country. Moscow is not only political capital, but also economical. More than 40% of Russian finances are concentrated in Moscow. Most of Russian and foreign companies got headquarters in Moscow. Moscow is a huge fair and trans-shipment point for goods. You want to supply goods to Russian regions? You should start from Moscow: most regional company directors come to Moscow on business regularly. Moreover business owners normally move to Moscow. It is easier to find customer and sell goods from Moscow, than from region. Outside Moscow (and Saint Petersburg) – there is another Russia, poorer country.

Concerning trucks, share of foreign trucks grows and will keep growing. Quality of Russian vehicles is low. High price of foreign trucks goes to the second plan due to leasing solutions and necessity of project realization in shorter terms. 

Chinese vehicles yet fail on Russian market. It concerns Chinese autos, trucks, buses and other machinery. It is caused by the lack of quality and absence of service support from Chinese manufacturers.

Nowadays Russia needs machinery of high quality and modern technologies. European companies have important advantage in supply (assortment and spare parts) and manufacturer’s support being geographically closer to economically active part of Russia.

Your development on Russian market will be cheaper and more successful if You will find strong Russian partner. Partner, possibly, proven by dealer relationships with other manufacturers.