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 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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2015
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 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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2016
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 2023
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2025-2027 / 2
Russia,forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2025–2027 / 2 The pace of Russian GDP growth decelerated much more rapidly in the first half of 2025 than anticipated in our March forecast. We now expect f...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2025
Russia’s GDP growth modest and government deficit on the rise
Russia,BOFIT Weekly Review Russia’s GDP growth modest and government deficit on the rise Rosstat figures show that Russian GDP grew by 1 % y-o-y in the first nine months of this year. Preliminary fi...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2025
Concerns emerge over Russia’s slowing growth
russia,economy,BOFIT Weekly Review Concerns emerge over Russia’s slowing growth Rosstat this week affirmed its preliminary first-quarter GDP growth estimate of 1.4 % y-o-y, bolstering the view that ...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2025
BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2025-2027 / 1
Russia,forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2025–2027 / 1 While Russian GDP has risen in recent years, much of the growth has been driven by the surge in government spending on the war in Ukraine. We...
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Russia lays out hydrocarbon-based energy strategy
Russia,energy,economy Russia lays out hydrocarbon-based energy strategy The Russian government prepares a national energy strategy at regular intervals. The 2009 strategy paper, which covered the p...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2024
BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2024-2026 / 2
<p>The latest forecast from BOFIT, the Bank of Finland’s Institute for Emerging Economies, sees Russian economic growth this year exceeding its previous estimate made last April. The higher 2024...
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Sanctions on Russia further tightened in June
Russia Sanctions on Russia further tightened in June The European Union, United States and United Kingdom expanded their economic sanctions on Russia in June. The new round of sanctions are intended...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2024
BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2024-2026 / 1
russia,forecast BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2024–2026 is published The Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT) expects Russian economic growth to begin slowing this year. While 2024 g...
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Retirement age hike approved in Russia
Russia Retirement age hike approved in Russia On September 27, the Duma, the lower house of the parliament, approved the third reading of a bill to raise the general retirement age by five year...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
Russia's public finances in overall balance
Russia Russia's public finances in overall balance Revenues to the consolidated budget (federal, regional and local budgets plus state social fund budgets) increased by over 15 % y‑o‑y in the fi...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018