In 2017, Russia's regions saw their socioeconomic status improve marginally over 2016. Industrial sectors continued to increase in most of the regions, as investment rose in half of the regions. The unemployment rate continued to below. However, personal incomes and residential construction...

In January-July 2019, amid the upturn in industry driven mainly by resource-producing territories and sectors and weak growth in consumption the most serious problems were still the level of households' incomes and the volume of investments which fell in more than a half of regions. The housing...

Multidirectional trends were relevant for development of regions during three quarters of 2018. On one hand, industrial growth continued in ¾ of regions, consumption increased practically everywhere, unemployment did not experience any visible changes. On the other hand, new housing supply...