The Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy has analyzed the state of Russia's light industry and made a comparative analysis of the competitive power of production chains of Russian manufacturers and their principal foreign competitors. The analysis shows low degree of integration of Russia's...

In January 2015, a drop of 5.1% and 6.3% year-on-year in retail trade volume and investments in capital assets, respectively, had a considerable effect on the domestic market. The dynamics of the consumer market was determined by a simultaneous drop of 5.5% and 3.5% in demand on food products...

According to the preliminary estimates of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, in 2014 GDP annual growth rates amounted to 100.6% as compared to the previous year. Slowdown of growth rates of the Russian economy is justified by low internal demand. Investments in...

In January–March 2016, fixed capital investment stood at 95.2% in real terms, including in the segment of large and medium enterprises to the tune of 98.5% against the corresponding period of the previous year. The share of own capital posted an upward trend in the structure of sources, which...

According to preliminary data released by Rosstat, in Q1 2016, Russia's GDP constituted 98.8% (97.2% a year earlier) against the corresponding period of the previous year. Downward trend in domestic consumption persists although the slump is losing its grip on the economy. Growth in agriculture...

In early 2016, Russia's domestic market was exposed to the long-continued influence of a simultaneous contraction of the consumer and investment markets. In January and February, the retail trade turnover index amounted to 93.4%, the volume index of commercial services rendered to the...

In September 2014, the trend of slowdown of economic dynamics by the baseline types of economic activities stopped. Growth in industrial output, manufacturing and mining amounted to 2.8%, 3.6% and 2.4%, respectively, as compared to September 2013. However, the situation is complicated by the...

In August 2014, the dynamics of baseline types of economic activities weakened. With stagnation of industrial production at the level of August 2013, manufacturing industries fell by 0.6%. Investments in capital assets fell by 2.7% against August 2014 and irregularities in fulfillment of jobs in...

GDP advanced 0.8% in H1 2014 relative to the corresponding period of 2013, according to the preliminary data from Rosstat (Federal State Statistics Service). The products and services output index by basic type of economic activity remained near a positive value of 100.3% on an annualized basis...

Fixed investment in real terms stood at 97.42% in the period of January to July 2014 compared to the corresponding period in 2013. The structure of sources of financing saw an upward trend towards the formation of a bigger share of equity at enterprises as the share of federal budget resources...