Cooperation agreement was signed on December 17, 2012 in Russia. Web-site.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation is the federal ministry in charge of developing and implementing the Russian government’s economic policy across a number of areas.

The ministry's current responsibilities include state policy development and legal regulation in the following areas:

• macroeconomics
• financial markets and the international financial centre
• strategic planning, federal target programmes, federal target investment programmes and departmental target programmes
• support for and development of small and medium-sized enterprises
• foreign trade
• investment policy
• anti-corruption policy
• Special Economic Zones
• state guarantees
• real estate
• administrative reform
• regulatory impact assessment
• e-government
• corporate governance
• public procurement regulation
• energy efficiency, innovations, natural resource management
• restructuring of natural monopoly sectors
• privatisation of federal property
• efficient management of state property
• social sphere economics
• training of management personnel
• development of regional economies
• fostering competition
• land surveys and cartography
• formation of the Eurasian Economic Space