, excepting Russia and most post-Yugoslav countries. Despite weak growth in the EU, exports of the accession countries (and of …

recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The … much more essential structural changes in the composition of exports have certainly continued. For Russia, external … combined effects of those impacts cannot yet be reliably quantified. Russia's and Ukraine's GDP growth is likely to slow down …

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … positive growth figures recorded by the global economy as a whole. Central and Eastern Europe, together with Russia, Ukraine … instability. Finally, despite high GDP growth, structural distortions still characterize both Russia and Ukraine, whose economies …

Russia is shown to have every reason to seek special consideration of, as well as express its concerns over, the impact … restructuring processes in Russia. As the EU penetrates more deeply into the markets of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe …, Russia's share in bilateral and multilateral trade as well as other joint economic activities could be reduced still further …

States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan …

The term BRICs puts under a common label the four largest fast growing emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India and … external relations (trade, FDI) and on likely future developments. Brazil is a domestically oriented service economy; Russia …

Vladimir Putin's presidency (2000-2008). The speed of Russia's catching-up was then even faster than that of the new EU member … Russia. Nevertheless, before the outbreak of the global crisis, the medium-term growth outlook was generally positive …, although a growth slowdown appeared inevitable already at that time. After September 2008, the global crisis hit Russia …