NAGOYA (Kyodo) Toyota Motor Corp. wants to make inroads into Russia and has already been invited to set up shop.
But there are security issues to be considered, especially in light of the deadly school seizure in Russia's North Osetia region in September in which Chechen rebels left hundreds of children dead.
Sergei Kiriyenko, President Vladimir Putin's envoy to the Volga federal district, southeast of Moscow, visited Japan earlier that month to urge Toyota Chairman Hiroshi Okuda and other executives to enter the Russian market.