In 2016, the Bank of Russia implemented a conservative monetary policy aimed at mitigating inflation. Commercial banks decreased their demand for central bank refinancing as the Reserve Fund was spent, in which case the central bank had to employ a set of instruments to prevent an increase in...

Last year, the Bank of Russia pursued conservative monetary policy aimed at reducing inflation. As a result, the inflation was 5.4% (December 2016 compared to December 2015), being significantly lower than it had been in 2015 (12.9% in December 2015 compared to December 2014). It is now the new...

Inflation in Russia stood at 4.3% at 2018 year end, posting an increase of 0.3 percentage points over the central bank's target inflation rate and of 0.1 percentage points over its preliminary forecast. Early 2019 saw prices continue to heat up: consumer prices and services rose 0.7% in the...

In 2019, a sharp and largely unexpected slowdown in inflation led to a significant easing of monetary policy. Over the course of that year, the Bank of Russia reduced its key rate five times: four times by 0.25 percentage points on June 14, July 26, September 6, and December 13; and by 0.5...

Despite large scale external shocks seen in February-March 2020, there was no spike in inflation in Russia and at the period-end of June, the annual inflation rate came to merely 3.2%. After a short-term price surge, which was observed in MarchApril 2020, downward pressure on prices was exerted...

This paper deals with Russia's monetary policy in 2014. The key developments in Russia's monetary policy in 2014 were determined by adverse processes in the Russian economy, which related to the tense geopolitical situation, massive capital outflow and the decline in the price of energy resources

The Bank of Russia's decision to reduce the key rate by 0.50 pp to 6.5% was caused by an inflation slowdown to 3.8% in October 2019 relative to October 2018, with a high probability of its continuing downward movement. In this connection, the Bank of Russia has revised its inflation projections...

In 2020, the world economy was faced with a large-scale crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a worsening situation in the global oil market, increasing global uncertainty, and capital outflows from emerging markets. The crisis phenomena were experienced, to a varying degree, by every...

This paper deals with Russia's monetary policy in 2013

Russia's current account balance went negative in Q2 2017 due to a growth in imports of goods driven by a strengthening Russian rouble, seasonal growth in imports of services and investment income payments amid stagnating exports of goods after the rising oil price trend grinded to a halt....