The short-term consequences of the bans imposed in 2014 on pork imports into Russia from the countries that used to be major suppliers of meat to this country are as follows: an altered geography of import supplies, rising prices on the pork market and related markets, and plummeting consumer...

High volumes of grain production in 2013, the devaluation of the national currency and concerns about likely disrupti ons in grain supplies from Ukraine allowed Russia to increase its grain export volumes in the period of 2013- 2014 MY1 and achieve the second highest result after record-high...

The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia’s accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domes?? c pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector...

The plans involving a number of health resort construction projects elaborated by OJSC Kurorty Severnogo Kavkaza [Health Resorts of the North Caucasus] (KSK), a company belonging to the North Caucas tourism cluster, are now faced with some serious problems that have to do with land issues. These...

In January–October 2014, entities of all the forms of ownership built 729,400 apartments with the total fl oorspace of 56.1m sq. m. which is equal to 123.7% on the respective period of 2013. Despite the macroeconomic situation, in 2014 in the country the ratio between the price of housing and...

In January–February 2015, 155,900 apartments were commissioned and their total fl oorspace of 12.3m sq. meters exceeded by 40.6% the result of January–February 2014. According to the data of the Rosreestr, in 2014 the volume of registered titles to land plots (6735253 registration...

In January–August 2014, growth in mortgage housing lending continued. As of September 1, 2014, Rb 1.07trillion worth of 619,026 mortgage housing loans was extended; that is 27.47% and 36.33% more in quantitative terms and monetary terms, respectively, as compared to the respective period of 2013....

Within three quarters of 2014, the volume of the extended MHL (703,160 loans for the amount of Rb 1219.38bn) exceeded by 34.57% and 26.12% in monetary terms and quantitative terms, respectively, the volume of loans extended in the same period of 2013. As of October 1, 2014, the share of MHL in...

In 2014, the volume of housing mortgage lending (HML) in the Russian Federation continued to grow despite the development of crisis phenomena in the Russian economy. The volume of housing mortgage credits (HMC) allotted in 2014 (Rb 1.762 trillion) was 30.18% above the same index for 2013, while...

Despite worsening of the fi nancial and economic situation, within 11 months of 2014 the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) (Rb 1530.3bn) exceeded by 22.2% and 30.2% in quantitative terms and monetary terms, respectively, the volume of MHL extended within the respective period of 2013. As of...