The characteristic feature of mid-2017 is a slowdown in the production growth pattern that emerged earlier this year, and its downward slide towards stagnation. The majority of manufacturing industries continue to display a zero or negative dynamic, the only exception being those that are linked...

The trend that first became visible in early 2016 – decline giving way to zero rates of growth – towards the end of H1 had spread across a majority of segments of the economy's real sector. The lack of a noticeable domestic demand and dependence upon foreign equipment supplies coupled with...

Rosstat announced late in Q2 2018 that it would need to revise its statistics on industrial production dynamics. As a result, growth rates, which were close to zero in the first quarter, turned positive for both the manufacturing and extraction sectors at the half year's end. A lack of...

In Q3 2018, the movement of industrial production indices returned to a near zero growth pattern, and first of all in the manufacturing sectors. In some industries, the slightly positive dynamics may have had to do, in part, with government support measures. Over the course of the same quarter,...

In March-April 2021, the OPEC+ agreement continued to restrain growth in the extractive sector. Nevertheless, the trend component in the production dynamic demonstrated a positive trend on the back of an increased demand for coal and gas in the European and Asian markets. The trend component of...

The OPEC+ deal and the coronavirus pandemic remain key factors affecting the state of the manufacturing and extractive industries. Some easing of the terms of the OPEC+ deal in 2021 in case of Russia and the possibility of containing the pandemic through mass vaccination suggest that there is a...

Based on the Q4 2020 results, industrial production outturns increased mainly on the back of extractive industries, particularly, owing to export coal supplies to China and Europe. In manufacturing, output growth still prevails in food, textile and chemical industries

In Q1 2022, the extractive sector showed growth due to the continued impact of the factors that emerged in 2021: growth of demand for thermal coal and natural gas from the European and Asian countries; weakening of the effect of restrictions related to the OPEC+ agreement following the increase...

Q4 2022 saw trend component growth in the industrial production index driven by extractive industries and manufacturing of goods substituting foreign brands which left the Russian market, as well as a pickup in demand for intermediate goods for the state defense order

In Q2 2022, the industrial production volume decreased. Slow growth was observed only in the mining industry on the back of the extraction of minerals (except for fuel and energy) and industries related to the provision of services in the extractive sector. Manufacturing industries began to feel...