In May, according to industrial enterprises estimates, output, and employment held steady. Moreover, industry indicated its readiness to cut prices thus showing the termination of the VAT new rate pass-through into producers' prices. Business forecasts retain high level of optimism maintained by...

The Russian industry has enough production capacity, according to data for 2018– 2019. More than 90% of producers have enough – or, in some cases, even more than enough – production capacity to meet the demand they expect. Not more than 10% of industrial enterprises are now faced with a...

According to the data of business surveys of the Gaidar Institute, in April the Russian industry escaped again the crisis slump both of demand and output with consistent control over stocks of finished products, further slowdown of growth in prices and radical positive revision of its sales and...