Ford Motor Company opened its first plant in Russia to produce cars for the domestic market last month, just as the Kremlin zeroed in on protecting the domestic industry.
The initial production run of a few thousand at the Vsevolozhsk plant, in the Leningrad region, will be boosted to 25,000 Ford Focus cars a year by 2007 if things go well. And if things go really well annual production could rise further to 100,000 units.
After a decade of standing on the sidelines, international car companies are beginning to take the plunge into the Russian market.
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