Mukhametshin said in his article: "Trade between Russia and Uzbekistan will exceed US$4 billion by the end of 2008. And in the past five year, it has increased tenfold.”

He said: “Within a short period of time, over 700 joint ventures with the participation of Russian capital have been set up in Uzbekistan, as well as 145 Russian companies have opened their representative offices in the country."

Farit Mukhametshin also said that Russian companies were successfully working in Uzbekistan.