The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, or more broadly the former republics of the USSR, actually make a choice between European (EU) and Eurasian integration (EAEU), which leads to certain benefits and risks for all CIS+ countries (including Ukraine and Georgia), especially for...

The free trade zone agreement between Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam will come into force starting 5 October 2016. The document, which envisages easing of access to their markets in the framework of mutual trade of member states, will allow to significantly...

On 1 April 2016, the transition on period terminates for a number of enterprises, which exploit preferential customs treatment in trading of goods manufactured in the territory of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of the Kaliningrad region to the rest of the territory of Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)

Deteriorating global market environment in November 2015 has determined further decline of major Russian foreign trade indicators. Growth of the Russian export volume failed to off set the fall of the global commodity prices. Various trade barriers introduced by foreign countries hamper Russia's...

In 2015, the RF foreign economic activity was subject to a set of negative factors: significant reduction of prices on all tradable commodities, contraction of external demand due to slowdown of the world economy, compression of domestic demand due to a fall of income and investment....

In early 2017, international financial organizations adjusted their short- and medium-term forecasts. The World Bank report Global Economic Prospects[1], released in January 2017, and estimated global growth in 2016 at a post-crisis low of 2.3%. It was noted that growth in emerging markets and...

In Q1 2015, Russian trade turnover was developing in the wake of the unfavourable global markets environment for natural resources, decline of economic growth rates, reduction of people's income and restrictive measures introduced by the Russian Federation regarding import of certain products....