BOFIT will release its update to Russia forecast for years 2025–2027 in Teams webinar on October 20, 2025
<p>BOFIT will release its update to Russia forecast for years 2025–2027 in Teams webinar on October 20, 2025 at 16.00 (UTC +3).</p>
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Russia statistics
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Personnel
BOFIT is led by Iikka Korhonen, our head of research. The BOFIT team consists mainly of economists specialised in monitoring and research of emerging economies, particularly Russia and China, as well ...
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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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Latest Forecast for Russia
Russia,Forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2026–2028 1/2026, published on 30 March 2026 Growth of the Russian economy slowed to 1 percent last year. Weaker trends in private consumption and fixed inv...
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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...
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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...
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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’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, ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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