In December 2012, the Russian foreign trade was carried out in a situation of stabilized prices on the main export goods, as well as slow-down of domestic demand. In the Russian Federation, measures are being actively developed to protect domestic producers in a situation where Russia is a...

From April 2012, the Russian foreign trade has been in stagnation. In the past few months, growth rates of both export and import fluctuated near the zero level. Russia turned down the EU's request to the WTO to convene a panel of arbitrators to consider the issue of the existing mechanism of...

The rate of growth in both, exports and imports in recent months are ranging around zero. In October, Russia for the first time took part in the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a full member

In September 2013, the main indices of the Russian foreign trade did not virtually change, which situation was justified by slowdown of the growth rates of the global economy, worsening of the global market situation for Russian commodities, as well as reduction of the aggregate demand on the...

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...

Amid prolonged trade tensions, high political uncertainties and the COVID-19 pandemic, the global growth outlook has become much worse. In the past year, in global economic growth rates there was a dramatic slowdown both of international trade flows and global production activities. The growing...

In September 2015, the Russian foreign trade turnover was contracting. Deterioration of relations with Turkey, which is a major trading and economic partner of the Russian Federation, added to many negative factors affecting Russian foreign trade