Russia drops to sixth place among Finnish export markets
Russia drops to sixth place among Finnish export markets After falling for a couple years, Finland’s exports to Russia decreased by an additional third on-year in January-March to €700 million. In th...
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Russia’s labour force shrinks along with unemployment
Russia Russia’s labour force shrinks along with unemployment Rosstat’s latest labour market survey, which is based on the methodology of the International Labour Organization (ILO), finds that the e...
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BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2021–2023 / 2
Russia,China,forecast Forecast for Russia Forecast for China https://youtu.be/hHBfFr4p68I https://youtu.be/w2tc4f0jDvc BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2021–2023 russia The forecast for the ...
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BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2021–2023
Russia,China,forecast BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2021–2023 russia We have raised our economic forecast for Russia from last autumn to reflect the rise of oil prices and price expectations....
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BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2020–2022
Russia,China,forecast BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2020–2022 Russia With the coronavirus pandemic and drop in global commodity prices proving more severe than foreseen in the baseline of our...
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BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2019–2021
Russia,China,forecast BOFIT Forecasts for Russia and China 2019–2021 RUSSIA Russian economic growth gathered steam in 2018. Rising oil prices and ruble depreciation combined to boost budget revenues...
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Russia’s foreign debt up slightly in the first quarter
Russia’s foreign debt up slightly in the first quarter Growth in Russia’s foreign debt basically came from government foreign debt. Russia’s foreign debt is held mainly by non-bank corporations, bank...
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Russia approves 2019 federal budget and social fund budgets
Russia Russia approves 2019 federal budget and social fund budgets The finance ministry expects federal budget revenues to increase next year by about 5 % relative to this year’s expected revenues. ...
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Wage growth varies considerably across sectors in Russia
Russia Wage growth varies considerably across sectors in Russia While the reported average wage has risen briskly, it appears that wage income has actually been rising even faster. According to Ross...
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Central Bank of Russia keeps key rate at 7.50 %
Russia Central Bank of Russia keeps key rate at 7.50 % At the monetary policy meeting on October 26, the CBR noted that short-term inflation risks remained elevated. The annual rate of con...
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Higher export prices drive up industrial producer prices in Russia
Russia Higher export prices drive up industrial producer prices in Russia The rise in producer prices for supplies to domestic customers has accelerated this year, exceeding 14 % y-o-y in Septe...
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Poor health lowers Russia’s ranking in human capital comparisons
Russia Poor health lowers Russia’s ranking in human capital comparisons Russia’s “human capital” (the knowledge, skills, talents and capabilities of its population) can be evaluated by different met...
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FIFA World Cup boosted Russia’s tourism exports in summer
Russia FIFA World Cup boosted Russia’s tourism exports in summer During summer tourist season, which runs from April to September, foreign visitors spent about 8 billion dollars (an increase of 45 %...
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Russia’s fourth large natural gas liquefaction unit started production
Russia Russia’s fourth large natural gas liquefaction unit started production In August, the first cargoes were off-loaded from the second unit (liquefied natural gas (LNG) train in professional ter...
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Changes in structure of fixed investment in Russia
Russia Changes in structure of fixed investment in Russia Fixed investment rose by over 3 % y-o-y in the first half of this year, even if investments of large and mid-sized firms and the state, whic...
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Russia has a large, but relatively poor, middle class
Russia Russia has a large, but relatively poor, middle class Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest private commercial bank, has released a study claiming that 30 % of the Russian population, about 43 mil...
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International Monetary Fund lowers growth forecast for Russia
Russia International Monetary Fund lowers growth forecast for Russia The IMF’s July update to its World Economic Outlook revise the forecast for Russia’s projected 2019 growth down from 1.6 % i...
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Increase in outflows of private capital from Russia
Russia Increase in outflows of private capital from Russia Preliminary balance-of-payments figures show that Russia’s net private-sector capital outflow went on in the second quarter. The net outflo...
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Russia’s population declines, greys and increasingly packs into cities
Russia Russia’s population declines, greys and increasingly packs into cities The UN’s latest population forecast shows the Russian population falling from its current 146 million to 135 million by ...
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Russia suspends flights to Georgia after July 8
Russia Russia suspends flights to Georgia after July 8 Last Friday (Jun. 21), President Vladimir Putin signed a decree suspending direct flights between Russia and Georgia citing heightened security...
Bofit.fi / Bofit homepage / Monitoring / Weekly Review / 2019