Abstract:
© Serials Publications. In the current conditions of the development of Russian economy, there is an urgent need for a systematic (comprehensive) study of the directions, forms and methods of activities of Russian government, aimed at attracting and rationally using of foreign capital, connected with the need of the country to participate in world economic processes. Nowadays a thoughtful and versatile study naturally induces the need to use the historical experience of the political elite of the country in the sphere of attracting foreign capital in a difficult situation in economy, which is largely connected with raw material. The article concretizes the role of foreign capital in the process of renewal and development of the productive capacity of the national economy. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms of attracting of foreign capital into the national economy as an interconnected and interdependent set of measures to regulate them The article shows that foreign investment activity was an integral element of the overall economic policy, as well as its inclusion in the world economic relations as a full-fledged participant in the commodity exchange.