Over several recent months, the key issue in the discussion on the Strategy of Long-Term Development of the Pension System of the Russian Federation prepared by the RF Ministry of Labor was reform of the funded component of pension. The critics of the mandatory funded component in Russia usually...

In April 2014, Russia's banking sector witnessed a continuation of the trends observed over the several previous months: the share of state-owned banks continued to increase in all major segments of the banking services market; the growth rate of retail lending remained on the decline, while the...

In August 2014, the dynamics of baseline types of economic activities weakened. With stagnation of industrial production at the level of August 2013, manufacturing industries fell by 0.6%. Investments in capital assets fell by 2.7% against August 2014 and irregularities in fulfi llment of jobs...

Banks’ assets contracted in August due to the shrinking of basically all key types of bank assets. It is only retail accounts and deposits that showed minor positive dynamics, although the downtrend in growth rates was still in place. This also pushed down the growth in the credit portfolio....

In H1 2014, the business activities in the Russian economy were characterized by slowdown of growth rates of the external demand on goods of the Russian export and termination of growth in domestic demand. In H1 2014, a 2.8% reduction of investments in capital assets and the minimum growth of...

The Central Bank’s new management have revoked the banking license of 7% of banks which were operating last year. Additionally, the following trends in the development of the banking sector developed most visibly during the elapsed 12 months: retail market segments – retail loans and retail...

In July, revocations of banking licenses continued. Asset growth was signifi cantly slowed down as a result of shrinkage of their principal sources – corporate funds and foreign liabilities, as well as a very slow movement of individual deposits. Growth of interest rates has so far produced...

GDP advanced 0.8% in H1 2014 relative to the corresponding period of 2013, according to the preliminary data from Rosstat (Federal State Statistics Service). The products and services output index by basic type of economic activity remained near a positive value of 100.3% on an annualized basis...

Fixed investment in real terms stood at 97.42% in the period of January to July 2014 compared to the corresponding period in 2013. The structure of sources of fi nancing saw an upward trend towards the formation of a bigger share of equity at enterprises as the share of federal budget resources...

In January 2015, a drop of 5.1% and 6.3% year-on-year in retail trade volume and investments in capital assets, respectively, had a considerable eff ect on the domestic market. The dynamics of the consumer market was determined by a simultaneous drop of 5.5% and 3.5% in demand on food products...