国际英语新闻：Foreign investment in Russia plunges 21 percent in 2009

MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Foreign investment in Russia slumped 21 percent in 2009 to 81.9 billion U.S. dollars, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said Saturday.

In the same period, foreign direct investment dropped 41 percent to 15.9 billion dollars, portfolio investment fell 37.7 percent to 882 million dollars, and other investment was down 13.5 percent to 65.14 billion dollars, Rosstat said.

Accumulated foreign investment in the Russian economy increased 1.4 percent to 268.2 billion dollars in 2009.

The wholesale and retail trade and services sector garnered the most foreign investment in 2009 with an injection of 22.79 billion dollars. The manufacturing industry followed with 22.21 billion dollars.

Russia's largest investor countries last year included Cyprus, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Britain, Germany, China, Ireland, France, and Japan.