As a place to do business, Tatarstan came in first and Moscow last in a survey, conducted by the New Economic School. The survey listed 15 obstacles to business success and asked participants (100 CEOs in each of 10 regions) to rank them in terms of significance. Moscow respondents indicated all but one problem were worse in the city than they are nationwide.
The other regions participating in the survey were Irkutsk, Kaluga, Perm, Rostov, Tver, Tomsk, Voronezh and St. Petersburg. The researchers identified the four most common problems for all of the regions: lack of skilled work force, strained access to funding, corruption, and competition from the “gray” rivals. However, the business environment was very diverse in these regions.
Source: www.themoscowtimes.com