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 economic development has weakened in many sectors
Russia,BOFIT Weekly Review Russia’s economic development has weakened in many sectors Russia’s output growth slowed further in November. The economic development ministry’s preliminary estimate show...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2026
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
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2016
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
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
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 loses more educated people than receives
Russia Russia loses more educated people than receives Russia loses more educated people than receives The Gaidar Institute recently published a review on migration of educated people in Russia. Re...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2018
Russia wants to spur e-commerce
Russia Russia wants to spur e-commerce Russia wants to spur e-commerce The Russian administration has recently been enthused over digital economy and compiled related development programmes, most r...
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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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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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Small recovery in Finnish exports to Russia
Russia Small recovery in Finnish exports to Russia Finnish goods exports to Russia rose by 28 % y-o-y in 3Q19. Much of the growth came from gas pipeline deliveries to the Nord Stream 2 project....
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 2023
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...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / BOFIT / News / 2022
US imposes new sanctions on Russia
Russia US imposes new sanctions on Russia At the beginning of August, president Donald Trump signed an executive order preventing United States financial institutions from participating in new issue...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
Russia continues to accumulate foreign currency reserves
Russia Russia continues to accumulate foreign currency reserves The CBR’s foreign currency and gold reserves have grown quickly this year. As of August 1, the reserves stood at about 520 billio...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
Russia posts tepid first-half growth
Russia Russia posts tepid first-half growth Although Russian GDP grew by over 2 % last year, the pace of growth slowed to just 0.5 % in the first quarter of this year (BOFIT Weekly 21/2019). Ne...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019
Central Bank of Russia lowers key rate
Russia Central Bank of Russia lowers key rate On June 14, the Central Bank of Russia, as markets anticipated, lowered the key rate by 25 basis points. The key rate is now 7.5 %. The CBR said their d...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019