At present about 4% of Russia’s GDP is generated in agriculture; however, the sector still accounts for 9.7% of the total number of employed in domestic economy with 26% of the country’s population living in rural areas. The latter indicator has remained actually unchanged throughout the 10...

In Russia where the major volumes of vegetables are traditionally produced by household farms, the fruit and vegetable business started developing quite recently. 2009-2010 were favourable for farm producers: market prices for vegetables were relatively high, investing in the construction of...

The short-term consequences of the bans imposed in 2014 on pork imports into Russia from the countries that used to be major suppliers of meat to this country are as follows: an altered geography of import supplies, rising prices on the pork market and related markets, and plummeting consumer...

This paper deals with Russia’s agricultural performance over the last 20 years. The authors provide their view on the situation on selected agricultural and food markets. Russia’s accession to the WTO and the impact on the Russian agrifood business is analyzed in this paper. The authors also...

High volumes of grain production in 2013, the devaluation of the national currency and concerns about likely disrupti ons in grain supplies from Ukraine allowed Russia to increase its grain export volumes in the period of 2013- 2014 MY1 and achieve the second highest result after record-high...

This paper deals with the outcome of the first year of Russia’s membership in WTO.

Последствиями введения в 2014 г. запретов на импорт свинины из стран, которые являлись основными экспортерами мяса в Россию, в краткосрочном периоде стали:...

Высокие объемы производства зерна в 2013 г., ослабление курса рубля и опасения по поводу возможных сбоев поставок зерна из Украины позволили России увеличить...

Снижение импортных пошлин на свинину с августа 2012 г. после вступления России в ВТО привело к падению цен на свинину и снижению рентабельности российских...

This paper examines the relative roles of region-specific and commodity-specific developments in the consumer price setting in Russia. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic hierarchical factor model using inflation rates across regions and sectors. We found little evidence of association...