Success in Bashkortostan

30/11/2010
An Italian-Russian business association is celebrating the completion of more than 30 projects since its inception in 2002.

A possibly unlikely area of success has been Bashkortostan, a republic in the Russian Federation, located around 1,500 kilometres from Moscow between the Volga river and the Ural mountains. Here, collaboration between Italian businesses and their local counterparts have focused on the tanning sector.

With Italian help, tanneries, a technology park and a water purification facility have been set up.