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Sochi Russian Investment Forum was opened on February 14, 2019. The forum is a traditional venue for presentation of Russia’s investment and economic potential, a place where important agreements are reached and multi-million contacts are concluded.

A cooperation agreement between Kaluga Region Government and ELA Container RU related to implementation of an investment project on construction of a production facility for assembly and, at a later stage, production of container-type mobile rooms, was concluded on February 6, 2019. The agreement was signed by Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, and Stefan Leopold, CEO, ELA Container RU. 

Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, visited two production facilities located in Grabtsevo industrial park, Kaluga.  

Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, held a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Russia Harry Koren at the Representation of the Government of Kaluga Region with the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, on January 17, 2019.  An Israeli delegation, which took part in the negotiations included Teimuraz Khikhinashvili, Chairman, Russia-Israel Business Council, Boris Rozenvald, Advisor to Chairman of  Russia-Israel Business Council  on Agriculture, Robert Fisher, Corporate Director, International Marketing, IAI, Denis Golm, Director, Altiko OOO (Tambur representation in Russia). Mark Velman, Vice President, LR-Group, etc. The companies are engaged in construction, provision os social and consulting services, financing and marketing.  

A press conference of Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, was held in Kaluga on January 14, 2019. Kaluga Region’s social and economic development results in 2018 as well as plans for 2019 were the key topics of the press conference.  It was attended by journalists from federal, regional and local mass media.

On December 28, 2018 a meeting of an expert council to review new applications from companies planning to become residents of Kaluga industrial special economic zone  was held in Kaluga. The meeting was chaired by Vladimir Popov, Deputy Governor of Kaluga Region. An application submitted by Ekstruzionnye Tekhnologii i Konstruktsii OOO was reviewed and approved by the council. The company is to implement an investment project providing for production of extruded aluminum

• Volkswagen plants in Russia demonstrates increased productivity
• Kaluga engine plant manufactured 161,000 engines in 2018
• Volkswagen Group Rus annual output reached 200,000 cars in 2018 for the first time since local production was launched

An official ceremony dedicated to signing of a memorandum of intent on establishment of a food industry cluster between Kaluga Region Government, Nestle Russia OOO and the Agency for Innovative Development – Center for Cluster Development of Kaluga Region, and signing of a special investment contract between Kaluga Region Government and Nestle Russia OOO was held in the Representation of Kaluga Region Government under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, on December 18, 2018.

On the 12^th of December Anatoly Artamonov, Governor, visited new cattle-breeding farm in Uteshevo Village, Babyninsky District and Shlippovo Production Base, Sukhinichi District, operated by Miratorg Agro-Industrial Holding. Victor Linnik, President of Miratorg AIH and Alexander Pavlov, Director General of Bryanskaya Myasnaya Companya OOO, Miratorg AIH, accompanied Head of the Region in his visit.

On November 27, 2018 Gary Koren, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Israel to Russia, accompanied by a delegation visited Kaluga Region. The purpose of the visit was to familiarize with industrial and investment potential of the region, to discuss promising lines of cooperation.