, Russia. Numerous useful indicators are identified and forecast pooling of three model classes (bridge models, MIDAS models …

an overview of the latest trends in Russia's oil & gas sector in the context of evolving global energy markets. …

finding that all types of banks in Russia increase their lending before presidential elections supports the view that the … authorities in an electoral autocracy like Russia can influence lending of both private and state-owned banks for political …

Russia has witnessed a high number of bank failures over the last two decades. Using monthly data for 2002 … provide mixed evidence that political cycles matter for the occurrence of bank failures in Russia. …

Russia does not release information on the numbers of mobilized and recruited men or casualties of war in Ukraine. In …

can claim to be among the pioneer foreign investors in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakstan and Belarus. The international financial … crisis has from September 2008 demonstrated Russia?s structural vulnerability. The comprehensive countermeasures by the … contributed strongly to an improvement of Russia?s general credit-worthiness and to a growth in foreign reserves. During the 1990s …