The BRIICS - Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa - are the largest developing countries in their …

crisis era. Chapter 1 examines the commercial policy of Russia during 2008-13, a time of global financial crisis that …-9 led to a tightened government budget constraint. It induced Russia to make wider use of more traditional instruments of …

and in Russia in particular are subject to major obstacles which are larger than in Central and Eastern European …