The paper is based on the data of surveys conducted among the managers of industrial enterprises. These surveys have been conducted by the IET according to the European harmonized methodology on a monthly basis since September 1992 and encompass the whole territory of the Russian Federation. The...

By the end of 2015, according to business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute, the Russian industry still will be unable to post statistically indisputable output growth. Weak demand, which can not be revived neither by the producers' price reduction nor by ruble devaluation and import...

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...

Import substitution in the Russian industry shows obvious signs of a slowdown. Both comparative results of actually implemented import substitution quarter-on-quarter and plans of enterprises for the last quarter of the current year attest to this. At the same time, import substitution of...

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...

Russian Abstract: Майская экономическая статистика демонстрирует продолжение и развитие негативных тенденций, обозначившихся еще в апреле: несмотря на...

Russian Abstract: Начавшееся в апреле и продолжившееся в мае снижение темпов инфляции в годовом выражении связано с одновременным действием нескольких факторов –...

Russian Abstract: Несмотря на почти двукратное падение цен на нефть, торговое сальдо в I кв. сократилось не так сильно, как это случилось, например, в начале 2009 г. Масштабы...