»»New Special Economic Zones in Russia
By handing the first residency certificate to general director of Severstal-avto Vadim Shvetsov, was inaugurated Elabuga industrial-production special economic zone in Elabuga. It is one of the six special economic zones in Russia that were legislatively created in December 2005.
Four of those, in Dubna, Zelenograd, St. Petersburg and Tomsk, were technical-innovative zones, and two of them, in Lipetsk region and Elabuga, were industrial-production zones. […]
Special economic zones are now being created faster in Russia even than in India and China, the world’s leaders in this area.
Russian Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref suggested making the land around Lake Baikal, Teletskoe Lake and the Black Sea shore special economic zones for tourism. (source)

