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 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...

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...

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...

In H1 2014, 375,800 apartments with the total fl oorspace of 29.4m sq. m. were built which value amounted to 130.2% on the respective period of the previous year. In Q2 2014, the average actual cost of building of 1sq m of housing increased by 13.55% as compared to Q2 2013 and amounted to Rb...

Within fi ve months of 2014, as compared to the respective period of the previous year growth in the volume of mortgage housing lending amounted to 35.96% and 44.15% as regards the number of loans and their monetary value, respectively (the respective data of 2013 against 2012: 12.46% and...

In January–April 2014, 231,100 apartments with fl oorspace of 17.9m sq. meters which amounts to 127% on the respective period of 2013. In Q1 2014, the average actual cost of building of 1 sq. meter of residential housing rose by 12.52% as compared to Q1 2013 and amounted to Rb 39,290. The...

This paper deals with the issues of managing state property owned by the treasury, and analyzes the main trends in property acquisition by and withdrawal from the treasury, as well as some quantitative results achieved as a result of the government policy implemented in 2011–2014, its...

Mortgage loans kept growing in Q2 2014. A total of Rb 434,8bn mortgage residential loans (MRLs) were extended in the period between April and June of the current year, up by 37.87% compared to the lending volume in Q2 2013, and a total of Rb 769,5 of MRLs were extended in the fi rst half of the...

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...