"Regionomiсa" LLC provides advice, technical assistance and services by making use of European experts:
(a) To government agencies, business associations and business support structures at the national, regional and local (municipal) level.
Our services cover the full range of issues of local / municipal and regional development with an emphasis on innovation in the field of policy development, strategy elaboration, planning and programming of regional development, creating institutions for regional development and for supporting small and medium enterprises, attracting new technologies and foreign direct investment.
(b) To small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in any field of activities.
Within the framework of the “Russia-Europe: Cooperation without Frontiers” programme the following basic services are being provided to European companies:
(a) identification of reliable business partners in Russia, both dealers and end user buyers;
(b) representing European company and promoting its products/services in Russia;
(c) registering and managing European subsidiary company in Moscow to minimize operational costs and tax expenses.
Please note that the cost of setting up a company in Russia is about Euro 200 and up to 10 working days. Corporate profit tax is 20% while the Simplified Tax System implies a special procedure for SMEs with the "income” taxation rate of 6% and "income minus expenses” taxation rate of 15%. There is the Unified Agricultural Tax - income, reduced by the amount of expenses incurred at the rate of 6% - for agricultural producers covering crop, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, including locally grown fish and other aquatic biological resources. Personal income tax in Russia is 13%. International participation exemption for dividends and capital gains might be also considered.
Promoting Russian FDI into Europe
Our mandate is to promote direct investment from Russia and to foster international outreach of Russian industries and thus provide new business opportunities for the Russian private industrial sector, especially small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
- Services to Russian enterprises: dissemination of information on investment climate in the European countries; reliable business partners scouting and matchmaking activities; setting-up companies in Europe; organization of business delegations and B2B meetings and international events; preliminary evaluation of investment projects; organization and implementation of capacity building activities for SMEs upgrading and development.
- Investment promotion activities: organize investment seminar/workshops composed by Russian entrepreneurs to disseminate investment climate in the concerned European countries to both Russian investors and Russian potential investors; organize business delegation and B2B meetings during workshops; conduct investment survey to characterize on Russian potential investors
- Business development activities: implement study/feasibility tours, matchmaking activates for the development of specific industrial areas with particular emphasis on sustainable development by seeking «Green Industry”
- Technology Transfer: Selected productive/environmentally-friendly technologies as well as know-how of Russian companies seeking overseas partners are promoted
Long-Term Integrated Business Partnerships Matchmaking Programme “Russia – Europe: Cooperation without Frontiers” is targeted at assisting Russian industrial companies, inter alia SMEs, in production, R&D and services with business partnership proposals, including investment projects, to identify potential business partners in Europe. Likewise at assisting European companies, inter alia SMEs, to identify potential business partners in Russia.
The ten B2B fora already held (10 November 2009, 7 June and 10 November 2010, 18 April 2011, 5-6 June 2012, 17-18 June 2013), 24-25 June 2014, 29-30 June 2015, 27-28 June 2016, 29-30 June 2017) brought together 1,563 Russian and 513 European SMEs which had 3,287 bilateral negotiations. An unlimited number of informal meetings were also held. In 2013 the Forum was organized jointly with the European Commission and its first «Mission for Growth to the Russian Federation» headed by Mr. Antonio Tajani, Vice-President, now President of the European Parliament.
The Programme has the character of "technical assistance" and is not a commercial project.
Participation of Russian and foreign companies in the events is free of charge (for more details please see Programme Services section).