title: Case study: Environmental analysis for Russia in light of economic sanctions
abstract: This chapter introduces two foreign multinational companies and their foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in Russia: On the one hand, Huawei Technologies, a growing Chinese firm, and, on the other hand, Royal Philips, a Western company. It describes how their market entry and penetration activities may have changed in recent challenging times. The chapter introduces economic data of the macro-analysis of Russia. In March 2014, the United States, the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, and o