Russia’s foreign currency and gold reserves hit record high
Russia Russia’s foreign currency and gold reserves hit record high At an estimated $630 billion, Russia had the world’s fifth largest foreign currency and gold reserves at the end of 2021. The value...
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Central Bank of Russia continued to tighten monetary policy
Central Bank of Russia continued to tighten monetary policy Last Friday (Dec. 17), the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) hiked its key rate by a full percentage point to deal with accelerating inflation. ...
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Russia approves strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Russia Russia approves strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions Issues related to climate change have recently gained prominence in Russia’s economic policy discussion. Much of the conversatio...
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Russia’s economic growth has continued, though slowing a bit
Russia Russia’s economic growth has continued, though slowing a bit While the on-year September increases in most sectors of the Russian economy were notably high, the economic development ministry ...
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Russia's development plans are complemented with strategic initiatives
Russia Russia's development plans are complemented with strategic initiatives Russia’s long-term economic policy is based on the National Goals for 2030 announced by president Putin in July 2020...
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Russia approves anti-corruption plan for 2021−2024
Russia Russia approves anti-corruption plan for 2021−2024 In August, president Vladimir Putin issued a decree requiring numerous authorities at the federal, regional and municipal levels to adjust t...
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Russia and Belarus agree on deeper economic integration
Russia Russia and Belarus agree on deeper economic integration On September 9, the prime ministers of Russia and Belarus signed an agreement, blessed by presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukas...
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Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose
Russia Russia’s foreign goods trade recovered; corporate capital outflow rose As expected, preliminary balance-of-payments figures from the Central Bank of Russia show that export revenues and impor...
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Russia’s speedy economic recovery pushes up prices and wages
Russia Russia’s speedy economic recovery pushes up prices and wages The rapid economic recovery continued in May. Even if the pace of growth slowed or remained unchanged from previous months in many...
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Costs to firms from regulatory practices discussed in Russia
Costs to firms from regulatory practices discussed in Russia Official inspections and Russia's new security-related laws were focal topics last year. Mikhail Abyzov, minister charged with improvi...
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Russia and OPEC agree to reduce oil output
Russia and OPEC agree to reduce oil output The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, announced on November 30 that it had reached agreement with its member countries on reducing crude ...
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Growth of Russia’s banking sector has stalled
Growth of Russia’s banking sector has stalled Household deposits held by banks increased at a brisk pace last year and the early months of 2016. More recently, however, the stream of household deposi...
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Fixed investment in Russia recovered in late 2020
Russia Fixed investment in Russia recovered in late 2020 Following a decline last spring, fixed investment was down by about 5 % y-o-y in real terms in both the second and third quarters. It re...
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Central Bank of Russia keeps key rate unchanged
Central Bank of Russia keeps key rate unchanged On February 12, the CBR decided to keep the key rate unchanged at 4.25 %. The decision was in line with the expectations of market analysts. The C...
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Central Bank of Russia kept key rate unchanged
Russia Central Bank of Russia kept key rate unchanged On December 18, the CBR decided to keep the key rate unchanged at 4.25 %, the level at which it has remained since last July. In issuing it...
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Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Russia, consumers increasingly cautious
Russia Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Russia, consumers increasingly cautious The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia has climbed steadily since early September. In the first days of...
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Central Bank of Russia keeps its key rate unchanged
Russia Central Bank of Russia keeps its key rate unchanged At its meeting on October 23, the CBR decided to keep the key rate unchanged at 4.25 %. The decision was in line with market analyst e...
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Russia to impose bans on raw wood exports
Russia Russia to impose bans on raw wood exports At the end of September, president Vladimir Putin stated that raw wood exports of softwoods (conifers) and valuable hardwoods (oak, beech and ash) sh...
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Russia’s share of global investment falls sharply
Russia’s share of global investment falls sharply The latest report from the UN agency UNCTAD finds that the flow of foreign direct investment into Russia last year slowed substantially to just $10 ...
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Russia’s public sector planning a shift to domestic software
Russia’s public sector planning a shift to domestic software At the end of July, prime minister Dmitri Medvedev approved a plan aiming at the federal administration renounce foreign computer software...
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