Russia has been upgraded 19 places, from 111th to 92nd, out of the 189 countries covered by the recent Doing Business 2014, the report made by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. The performed work has shown tangible results. However, a sober attitude towards assessing the...

Various international organizations has recently published country rankings on various business environment metrics, namely Index of Economic Freedom, Corruption Perception Index, Forbes’s “Best Countries for Business”. Russia ranks low by all these organizations. The current tragic...

The most serious obstacles in the way of Russia’s economic development have to do with this country’s underdeveloped market institutions and institutional environment, and an unfavorable entrepreneurial climate. The stagnation in the Russian national economy is indicative of the business...

The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 has been published. Its findings are virtually the same as in the report for the previous year which was analyzed in the Gaidar Institute’s August Review. In the business climate, the most difficult sitution for more than a single year has prevailed...