{"id":538750,"date":"2026-05-03T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=538750"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:15:23","slug":"uae-investment-in-minsk-economy-rises-more-than-fourfold-compared-with-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/uae-investment-in-minsk-economy-rises-more-than-fourfold-compared-with-2022","title":{"rendered":"UAE Investment in Minsk Economy Rises More Than Fourfold Compared With 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Main Statistical Office of Minsk has <a href=\"https:\/\/minsk-city.belstat.gov.by\/ofitsialnaya-statistika\/publications\/public_compilation\/index_164251\/\">published<\/a> the report \u201cMinsk in Figures\u201d for 2025. One section focuses on foreign investment in the Belarusian capital\u2019s economy. A total of $4.0688 billion in foreign investment was attracted last year.<\/p>\n<p>After declining from $4.50 billion in 2022 to $3.66 billion in 2024, investment partially recovered in 2025, increasing by more than $413.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Countries of the CIS remain the main source of funds. Their contribution in 2025 reached nearly $3 billion, up from $2.58 billion a year earlier. The bulk of these investments traditionally came from Russia, which accounts for more than 95% of inflows from the region. Russian investment rose to $2.85 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The contribution of other CIS countries remains significantly lower and volatile. Investment from Kazakhstan increased to $62.3 million after a sharp decline in 2023, while inflows from Armenia rose to $31 million.<\/p>\n<p>Minsk officials continue to classify Ukraine as part of the CIS region, with inflows from the country falling to less than $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Investment from countries outside the CIS has generally declined compared with 2022, although 2025 saw growth in some \u043d\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f\u0445.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable increase came from the United Arab Emirates, with investment rising to $367.9 million \u2014 more than four times higher than in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus, despite an overall decline in recent years, also recorded growth in 2025, with investment reaching $356.2 million after a drop in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Investment from China more than doubled compared with the previous year, reaching $104.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, inflows from Western countries continued to decrease. Investment from the United States fell to $12.4 million, from Germany to $12.9 million, and from the Netherlands to $10.2 million. Inflows from Austria also declined to $11.2 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_538740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538740\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-538740\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-693x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-1039x1536.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-271x400.jpg 271w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/minsk.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-538740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Main Statistical Office of Minsk has published the report \u201cMinsk in Figures\u201d for 2025. One section focuses on foreign investment in the Belarusian capital\u2019s economy. A total of $4.0688 billion in foreign investment was attracted last year. After declining from $4.50 billion in 2022 to $3.66 billion in 2024, investment partially recovered in 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":527650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f7041ea90c0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"UAE Investment in Minsk Economy Rises More Than Fourfold Compared With 2022"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}