Monitoring
BOFIT monitors and analyses the economic development, policies and progress of structural reforms of emerging economies, including Russia, China and India. We also track relevant developments in the g...
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Russia Forecast publication date
<p style="text-align: left;">Updated BOFIT Russia Forecast for 2024-2026 will be published on 25.3.2024 at 13.00 (UTC +02:00). The updated forecast will be presented at 13.00 (UTC +02:...
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Russia struggles to balance fiscal and monetary policy demands
Russia,BOFIT Weekly Review Russia struggles to balance fiscal and monetary policy demands Russian economic policymakers continue their quest to balance between the loose fiscal policy requirements n...
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Slowing growth in Russia
Russia Slowing growth in Russia The preliminary figures released by Rosstat, Russia’s federal statistics service, show that Russian GDP grew by 4 % y-o-y in the second quarter. Growth has slowe...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2024
Inflation in Russia moderates
Inflation in Russia moderates Consumer and producer price inflation have slowed recently. Industrial producer prices were in fact down clearly on-month in December-January. In on-year terms industri...
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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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
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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Investment sluggish in Russia
Investment sluggish in Russia Fixed investment was up 2.3 % y-o-y in the first quarter. Rosstat reports that on-year growth in total fixed investment excluding small firms and those that operate in t...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2017
Rising unemployment in Russia
Russia Rising unemployment in Russia The number of registered unemployed jumped from 1.3 million at the end of April to 2.1 million at the end of May. Anton Kotyakov, Russia’s minister of labour and...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2020
Inflation slows in Russia
Inflation slows in Russia April 12-month consumer price inflation was 4.1 %, slightly lower than the first-quarter pace (4.5 %). Inflation was running at 5.4 % at the end of 2016. The rise in consume...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2017
BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2022-2024 / 1
Russia,forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2022–2024 is published Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having profound impacts on Russia’s economic future. Western sanctions continue to raise both the dir...
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Russia’s new budget framework does not promise support for fading economic growth
Russia,BOFIT Weekly Review Russia’s new budget framework does not promise support for fading economic growth Russia’s economic growth remained sluggish in August. In particular, the slowdown in inve...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2025
Economic conditions in Russia continue to weaken
Russia,BOFIT Weekly Review Economic conditions in Russia continue to weaken Russian output growth has stagnated this year even if the economy has not fallen into recession. Increasingly severe econo...
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BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2023-2024 / 1
Russia,forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2023–2024 is published Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the economic sanctions imposed on Russia drove the Russian economy to the verge of crisis...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 2023
BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2019-2021
Russia,China,forecast BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2019–2021 Russia Russia’s high growth last year was spurred by transient factors, and growth is expected to subside to lower levels this ye...
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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 / 2
#Russia #forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2023–2024 is published For the first half of this year, Russia’s economy clearly outperformed our previous forecast. While much of the up-side surprise ca...
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Russia’s economic slowdown continues
Russia,economy,BOFIT Weekly Review Russia’s economic slowdown continues Preliminary Rosstat figures show Russian GDP grew by 3.1 % y-o-y in the third quarter. For the first nine months of the year, ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2024
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2017