What foreign companies have shown the greatest interest in investing in the Russian pulp and paper industry?
PP: Most of all Finnish and Chinese companies. The Chinese informed us in the protocol of the meeting of the Russian-Chinese permanent working group on the development and exploitation of forest resources on April 19, 2005, that priority projects for long-term investment in the Russian forest industry complex had been determined. Those projects in the near future will be the construction of a pulp and paper plant with a capacity of 600,000 tons in Chita Region and one with a 300,000-ton capacity in Khabarovsk Region. The Finnish firm Jaakko Poyry Consulting has developed a business plan for the construction of a pulp and paper in Russia. However, the investor from the Finnish side has yet to be determined. We have not yet agreed on a single project, not on Udorsky (Komi Republic), Vologda, Turtassky (Tyumen Republic) or Dobryansky (Perm Region), but work is being done with investors. On the level of enterprises and on the regional level and on the federal. We are working with the, but
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