"I consider it my duty to do my best to make the Republic of Karelia a republic open for investments, a republic where money is invested with profit, a republic where investments are welcome. It does not concern those investors who come to buy forests, lakes, and our land, but those who build real enterprises establishing new real workplaces, providing real tax revenues that make it possible to improve life of people living here. It depends on both the administration, on everyone in this auditorium, and on every person living in the republic."

From the statement of Andrei V.Nelidov
at the special meeting of the Legislative Assembly
of the Republic of Karelia on July 21, 2010

Biography of Andrei Nelidov