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...