The analysis of the development of legal regulation of foreign investments in Russia

In the conditions of uncontrolled “capital flight” and unsuccessful attempts of “deoffshorization” of the country’s economy, the strategic task of the Russian Federation at the present stage is to find the best ways to attract investments and repatriate capital to the economy of the country. However, without a proper legal framework containing legal guarantees for the capital, this will not be achieved. The investment legislation of the Russian Federation at the present stage is characterized by an unsystematic character, absence of a single law that would establish general rules for various types of investment activities. The analysis of the evolution of the regulatory framework governing foreign investments in the Russian Federation, in particular the influx of capital into the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern periods, will allow us to find past mistakes in order to prevent them in the future, and also to choose a course for the effective development of investment legislation.