By Rachel Savage LONDON (Reuters) – Middle Eastern and Chinese sovereign wealth funds are likely to avoid new deals in Russia for now after its invasion of Ukraine, said the author of a report published on Wednesday that showed record investment last year by funds around the world. Russia attracted the sixth-highest number of sovereign wealth deals from October 2020 to December 2021, according to the Sovereign Wealth Funds report, a collaboration between IE University’s Center for the Governance of Change and ICEX-Invest in Spain. Investors and companies have rushed to announce they are gettin…