This paper deals with a broad section of Russia’s foreign trade issues in 2011

This paper deals with a wide choice of Russia’s foreign trade issues.

From April 2012, the Russian foreign trade has been in stagnation. In the past few months, growth rates of both export and import fluctuated near the zero level. Russia turned down the EU’s request to the WTO to convene a panel of arbitrators to consider the issue of the existing mechanism of...

Russia’s foreign trade key indicators plummeted in November 2014. The introduction of a “fiscal maneuver” in the oil and gas industry amid falling crude oil prices gave rise to substantial reduction in the crude oil export duty early in 2015. In an eff ort to set back such a price hike in...

In September 2014, the Russian foreign trade turnover calculated on the basis of the methods of the balance of payments amounted to $64.6bn which is 12.4% lower than the respective index of the previous year. It is to be noted that the export of goods from Russia decreased by 13.4% to $38.8bn,...

Over recent years Russia has actually become a monoculture exporter: three types of energy resources (crude oil, oil products and natural gas) ensure about 60% of the overall export volume. In the circumstances of such high export concentration over a small group of commodities, Russia's room...

The work is concerned with free economic zones classification and basic principles of operation. Foreign experience of free economic zones creation is regarded. Considerable attention is paid to the his tory of free economic zones organization in Russia. The main causes of failures of their...

The rate of growth in both, exports and imports in recent months are ranging around zero. In October, Russia for the first time took part in the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a full member

In September 2013, the main indices of the Russian foreign trade did not virtually change, which situation was justified by slowdown of the growth rates of the global economy, worsening of the global market situation for Russian commodities, as well as reduction of the aggregate demand on the...

The WTO has revised downward the forecast of growth in the global trade volume. In January-July 2013, the foreign trade turnover of the Russian Federation decreased due to a drop in export supplies. From October 2, 2013, Rosselkhoznadzor introduced temporary restrictions on supplies to Russia of...