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...

From the middle of the past decade a relatively new phenomenon – a large-scale direct investment outflow (which amount is comparable to FDI inflow to Russia) – is observed in the Russian economy and those investments mainly go to M&A abroad. Special attention is paid to an analysis of...

This paper deals with the issues related to the customs administration, which does not permit creating a favorable competitive environment in the export sphere. Administrative barriers are not only constraints for the business and entrepreneurship development but create another problem which...