Book to celebrate Pekka Sutela's anniversary year
Russia Book to celebrate Pekka Sutela's anniversary year Esteemed economist Pekka Sutela, specialising in the Russian economy, will be 60 very soon. To celebrate the occasion, a book ...
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Thanks to everybody who responded to our February reader survey!
Thanks to everybody who responded to our February reader survey! We found your comments generally positive and much appreciate the high marks you gave our service. We also appreciate the wealth of .....
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Modest growth in Russian industrial output continues
Russia Modest growth in Russian industrial output continues The volume of industrial output rose by 2.4 % y-o-y in November. The pace of growth was in line with the industrial output t...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
Russian fixed investment continue reasonable recovery, with further weight on oil and gas
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Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
Slow recovery in Russian consumption continues; good increases in industrial output
Russia Slow recovery in Russian consumption continues; good increases in industrial output Despite its slow revival pace, the recovery in seasonally-adjusted retail sales plodded forward in...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose
Russia Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose As expected, preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the Central Bank of Russia show that export r...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2021
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 vi...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2017
Dispute over pension system resolved
component will be reintroduced at the start of 2016. Russia fundamentally overhauled its pension system in 2002. At that time, Russia shifted to a two-pillar system that introduced t...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
Russian pipeline gas exports to EU effectively cease
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Russian pipeline gas exports to EU effectively cease
On September 2, Gazprom shut off all gas flow in the Nordstream 1 gas pipeline running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea from
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2022
Russia to dip into its sovereign funds
Russia to dip into its sovereign funds At the end of January, Russia’s sovereign funds amounted to $160 billion. Tax revenues from oil and gas have been accumulated to the funds sin...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
Russia’s inflation tick-up may be fairly transient
Russia Russia’s inflation tick-up may be fairly transient In March, 12-month consumer price inflation remained rather moderate at 2.5 %. However, the month-on-month inflation accelerate...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
New OPEC+ agreement on oil production ceilings fails to calm markets
Russia* New OPEC+ agreement on oil production ceilings fails to calm markets At a meeting on Monday (Apr. 12) of the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries (led by Saudi Arabia and Russ...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Monitoring of partially completed fixed investments in Russia is difficult
Russia Monitoring of partially completed fixed investments in Russia is difficult A recent study of Russia’s Accounts Chamber notes that information about partially implem...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
Capital controls enable ruble recovery
Russia Capital controls enable ruble recovery The ruble’s exchange rate crashed immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine. As Western sanctions restrict the access to central bank’s...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2022
China and Russia impose most trade and investment barriers on European firms
China China and Russia impose most trade and investment barriers on European firms The European Commission's Annual Report on Trade and Investment Barriers notes that the wave of protec...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
Russia’s economy weakened in October
Russia Russia’s economy weakened in October Russian economic growth has slackened since the summer’s brisk recovery, with volatile development across branches. Manufacturing and agriculture ...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Russia’s National Welfare Fund swells; CBR forex and gold reserves hit record high in August
Russia Russia’s National Welfare Fund swells; CBR forex and gold reserves hit record high in August At the end of August, the National Welfare Fund (NWF), which has been built up from taxing...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Russia’s deposit insurance agency is given the administration of Yugra Bank
Russia Russia’s deposit insurance agency is given the administration of Yugra Bank Russia’s deposit insurance agency is given the administration of Yugra Bank In terms of total ass...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2017
Even confirmed coronavirus infections soar in Russia, officials remain cautious about imposing new restrictive measures
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Even confirmed coronavirus infections soar in Russia, officials remain cautious about imposing new restrictive measures
The number of new confirmed covid-19 infections in
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Russia, consumers increasingly cautious
Russia Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Russia, consumers increasingly cautious The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia has climbed steadily since early Sept...
Bofit.fi / BOFIT start page / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020