Russian Abstract: Июнь стал в определенном отношении переломным месяцем в развитии нынешнего кризиса в российской экономике. По предварительным данным Росстата, в июне...

Analysis of July data regarding the state and expectations for businesses covered by the Gaidar Institute business surveys1 demonstrated further bogging down of the Russian economy into the slow rolling 2015 crisis. Not a single major indicator has so far demonstrated chronic crisis adjustments....

According to the Gaidar Institute's business survey data1, the September performance score proved pessimistic rather than otherwise. The dynamics of demand and output underwent no fundamental change which discouraged enterprises and resulted in a lower satisfaction with demand and an increase in...

As before, the main obstacle to successful import substitution is the absence, in RF territory, of the production of equipment, equipment components and raw materials needed by Russian enterprises. The second issue associated with problematic import substitution is the low quality of domestic...

Downward trend in demand curbs growth of industrial output. At the same time, plans and projections of enterprises still remain optimistic. In the context of personnel shortage businesses put out considerable efforts aimed at keeping their workers and plan to increase employment

Gaidar Institute's business surveys show that the Russian industrial sector started recovering in early 2017 from the protracted crisis of 2015–2016. Some indicators increased, including actual and predicted changes in demand, stock (finished products), investment plans

Business surveys of industrial enterprises have been conducted by the Gaidar Institute using a European harmonized method in monthly cycles since September 1992, covering the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The panel size is around 1,000 enterprises employing over 13% of industrial...

The final evaluation of the Russian Industry Adaptability Index for Q1 2017 has confirmed the conclusion that enterprises have been exhibiting a persistently high degree of adaptation to the economic environment. The Index remains at a record high of 75% (in 1994–2017)

The monitoring of a representative set of indicators of business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute permits to identify the specifics of the 2015–2016 crisis in Russian industry. Firstly, within the two crisis years the dynamics of the main indicators (demand, output and prices) were...

February data on Russian industry demonstrates upward dynamics of the majority of actual indexes and preparedness of businesses to come out of a recession. Demand, output, stocks of finished products, and investment plans – all these indexes seem unexpectedly positive for the outsiders