Russia streamlines visa rules
Russia Russia streamlines visa rules Starting on October 1, foreign visitors to Russia can get cleared for their visit to St. Petersburg or the surrounding Leningrad region simply by filling in data...
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Russia slashes public investment
Russia slashes public investment Economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev has announced that investment spending from the federal budget would have to be limited over the next few years due to Russia’s frai...
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Russia hosts African leaders at first Russia-Africa summit
Russia Russia hosts African leaders at first Russia-Africa summit On October 23–24, Russia hosted the Africa-Russia Economic Forum in the Black Sea coastal city of Sochi. Egypt, the current chairman...
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BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2023-2024
BOFIT,Russia,forecast,webinar BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2023-2024 will be published in Teams webinar on September 14, 2023 BOFIT released its update to Russia forecast for years 2023–2024 on Se...
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Household borrowing up in Russia
Russia Household borrowing up in Russia Bank lending overall saw a slow recovery in the first half of the year. CBR figures show Russia's credit stock was up 3.4 % y-o-y at the end of June. Corp...
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Corruption dies hard in Russia
Russia Corruption dies hard in Russia Russia has performed equally worse in Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index rankings during recent years. Russia’s overall point score h...
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Russia posts record grain harvests
Russia Russia posts record grain harvests By the conclusion of the harvest season on November 1, over 135 million metric tons of grains and other grain staples had been harvested – an all-time recor...
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Capital outflows from Russia paused
Russia Capital outflows from Russia paused Capital outflows from Russia paused Preliminary 2Q17 balance of payments figures indicate that the net private sector capital flow turned slightly in favo...
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EU and Russia extend sanctions
Russia EU and Russia extend sanctions EU and Russia extend sanctions The EU Commission decided on June 28 to keep economic sanctions targeting specific sectors in place until January 31, 2018. The ...
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Russia revises industrial output data
Russia revises industrial output data Rosstat's 2015 figures for GDP production components were revised upwards earlier this winter, and the 2016 figures were less negative than expected. Both ou...
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Tepid growth outlook for Russia
Tepid growth outlook for Russia The January update of the IMF's World Economic Outlook sees a slightly stronger revival in growth for advanced economies than in its October forecast, but the glob...
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Russia’s economy minister arrested
Russia’s economy minister arrested Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee announced very early Tuesday morning (Nov. 15) that economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev had been detained. It was further not...
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Domestic demand in Russia recovers
Domestic demand in Russia recovers Rosstat reports that the seasonally adjusted volume of retail sales increased slightly in April. Sales were the same as a year ago. Because the recovery was precede...
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Russia's economic recovery: waiting
Russia's economic recovery: waiting Rosstat reports that seasonally and workday-adjusted industrial output recovered in March, after a weak February. In the first quarter, industrial output was v...
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Russia’s banking sector weakens
Russia’s banking sector weakens The troubles of the real economy are beginning to manifest in banking sector performance. While banks overall are still profitable, the number of loss-making banks ros...
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Russia ratifies Caspian Sea accord
Russia Russia ratifies Caspian Sea accord The five littoral states of the Caspian Sea (Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan) negotiated for two decades on territorial demarcation an...
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Russia foregoes daylight savings time
Russia foregoes daylight savings time In line with the Duma’s decision last summer that Russia would remain on standard time year round, Russians last Sunday did not “spring forward” an hour like the...
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Russia’s creditworthiness battered again
Russia’s creditworthiness battered again Last Friday (Feb. 20), the international credit ratings agency Moody’s lowered its rating of Russian foreign-currency government sovereigns from their lowest ...
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Fitch downgrades Russia’s creditworthiness
Fitch downgrades Russia’s creditworthiness International credit ratings specialist Fitch announced last Friday (Jan. 9) that it had cut its ratings on Russian sovereign debt from BBB to BBB-, Fitch’s...
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Russia’s natural gas and oil exports facing new challenges
Russia,economy,BOFIT Weekly Review Russia’s natural gas and oil exports facing new challenges Russia’s last operational natural gas pipeline to Europe shuts down As expected, at the beginning of Jan...
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