First September data obtained from the Gaidar Institute business surveys has demonstrated high adjustment of Russian industry to 2015 recession pattern. Sluggish negative demand dynamic suits the majority of enterprises and allows them to steadily control finished products' stocks. Output growth...

Even the minimum production growth forces enterprises to step up requirements to the demand, which is so far insufficient to bottom out. Meanwhile, according to the Gaidar Institute business surveys enterprises still are ready to take risks and do not revise their estimates of finished products...

The period under review (between 31 August 2015 and 25 September 2015) saw moderate downtrend for all of the Russian major stock market indicators: the MICEX Index dropped 5.4%, including all sector indices except the Mechanical Engineering Index, and all blue chips showed downside dynamics....

According to Gaidar Institute business surveys, industrial enterprises continue to exercise a commanding control over slow rolling downturn in the sector. Estimates of finished stock, demand and employment are far from traditional (as was in 2009) crisis ones. However, projections of demand,...

According to business surveys of the Gaidar Institute carried out in May, the situation in the Russian industry changed for the better. Forecasts of changes in demand, output and employment demonstrate positive dynamics. The stocks of finished products are successfully controlled by enterprises....

According to enterprises' estimates obtained as a result of business surveys of the Gaidar Institute1, in April actual changes in demand and output had negative dynamics, while forecasts did not promise any improvement of the situation. It is to be noted that industry had to switch over to more...

According to the data of business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute, the first estimates of March did not identify any principal changes in the dynamics of demand, output, employment and investments of the Russian industry. However, enterprises' prices have, probably, started to yield...

As industry gets back into work mode after the January holidays this is occurring slowly and does not promise any new positive trends. A steeper decline in demand has resulted in the slowdown of output with the normal levels of excess reserves of finished products. Companies are having to be...

The initial data of the business surveys of the Gaidar Institute on the state of things in the Russian industry showed that in January the situation did not change for the worse and modest positive signals late in 2013 might consolidate in 2014. The positive dynamics of the demand permitted to...

The results of decomposition of growth in the output index point to the fact that in 2013 growth in the gross value added (GVA) of industry was achieved by means of accumulation of extensive factors. According to the preliminary estimates, the growth rates of the aggregate factor productivity...