Over the course of September, many countries around the world, Russia including, were hit by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic; simultaneously, the discussion of the necessity to renew the lockdown measures was resumed. The situation in this country is characterized by a significantly...

In October 2020, the epidemiological situation has been deteriorating in many countries including Russia. A number of countries resume the lockdown measures. Russia recorded during the month a sizable increase in morbidity rate. Decision making on the introduction of the restrictive measures was...

In November 2020, the number of new coronavirus cases continued to rise in many countries around the world. Some national governments reintroduced containment measures, while others, on the contrary, were already prepared to ease the previously introduced measures. In Russia over the past month,...

The situation with the coronavirus around the world remains rather complicated during February. This being said, many countries (especially in the EU) are on the cusp of the third wave of the pandemic in the second half of February due to new strains. Many governments extended or even tightened...

The world is witnessing a rather dire situation in terms of the spread of the coronavirus, however in the second half of January 2021 positive trends were evident: many hard hit by the coronavirus countries have demonstrated either stabilization or gradual decline in the recorded daily new...

The situation with the spread of the coronavirus has been recently developing in different directions. In a number of countries (the EU including), the epidemiological situation improved due to mass vaccination of the population, and so the containment measures were eased. Other countries,...

The transportation complex and its development, in particular the development of transportation infrastructure, is one of the most important factors of economic growth. Investments in infrastructure invariably have a huge impact on long-term economic growth. A lack of proper infrastructure...

In late 2014-early 2015, retail and wholesale trade, the one of the biggest sector of Russian economy , longer than others ‘put up resistance' to the negative macroeconomic trends and showed an increase, however small, in commodity turnover. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 2015, in spite of a...

The rouble depreciation in H2 2014 and in 2015 led to a substantial rise of prices in the Russian economy amid sanctions. Those and related changes (e.g., foreign trade shocks and related updates of importers' strategies) also influenced price sensitivity (rigidity) to rouble exchange rate...

The analysis of consumer prices dynamics and the forecast based on the model of exchange rate pass-through effect indicates that in the Q3 2016, one should not expect significant inflation growth. The forecast of price dynamics in consumer segments is quite heterogeneous: the prices of non-food...