Continued contraction of the Russian foreign trade turnover is accompanied by adjustments both in commodity composition of trade and its regional pattern. Deteriorated terms of trade posted in H1 2015 became main determinant of the trade balance reduction against H1 2014. The Russian Federation...

In May 2015, downward trend of the main Russian foreign trade indices persisted. In spite of the promises given by the G-20 member states not to introduce new protectionist measures in the sphere of trade, the overall number of trade restrictions goes up. The WTO department of dispute settlement...

In 2015, the RF foreign economic activity was subject to a set of negative factors: significant reduction of prices on all tradable commodities, contraction of external demand due to slowdown of the world economy, compression of domestic demand due to a fall of income and investment....