About 200 projects with Russian investors are planned for implementation in the Vitebsk region

May 6, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. About 200 projects with Russian investors are planned for implementation in the Vitebsk region in the next two years, Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets told reporters today, BELTA correspondent reports. Cooperation with the Russian Federation is one of the strategic directions of foreign trade and investment activities, Alexander Kosinets stated. Russian investors intend to build a customs and logistics terminal on the border of the Customs Union with Latvia in the Verkhnedvinsk district near the village of Grigorovshchina. According to preliminary estimates, the investment volume will be $10-12 million. Another project is related to the organization of special vehicle production - ambulances, vehicles for law enforcement agencies, minibuses by the joint Belarusian-Russian enterprise "Grandiscar" - a resident of the FEZ "Vitebsk". The project envisages the production of up to 5,000 vehicles per year. For these purposes, the Belarusian-Russian tandem of founders plans to invest about $15 million over five years. Russian partners are also interested in investment projects for the creation of production facilities for the extraction and bottling of mineral waters. -0-