The Bank of Russia medium-run monetary policy course is to remain unchanged: the regulator will continue its efforts to bring the inflation rate down to 4% in 2017. This follows from the draft of the Guidelines for the Single State Monetary policy in 2016 and for 2017 and 2018. For this goal to...

In June, the Russian Central Bank, for the first time since summer 2015, decided to reduce the key interest rate by 0.5 percentage points, to 10.5%. The decline in inflation expectations, further slowdown in inflation and stabilization of the external environment, together with the...

Our results demonstrate that over the period in question the CBR employed a variety of intermediary monetary policy targets: interest rates, money supply and balances of the accounts of commercial banks with the Bank of Russia. The diversity of the intermediary targets can be attributed...

In this paper the authors tried to confirm that in implementing its monetary policy the CBR employed a variety of intermediary targets. These included interest rates, money supply and the balances of the accounts of commercial banks with the CBR

Recent slowdown of economic growth forces Russian political authorities to seek for policy measures to support economic activity. Monetary expansion is considered as one of the possible alternatives, which we consider inappropriate. During the whole post-crisis period monetary authorities of...

Following its board meeting on October 28, the Bank of Russia left the key rate unchanged at 7.5% per annum, which is in line with the analyst consensus forecast and financial market expectations. This decision was the result of a reversal in the inflationary trends, an increase in the...

Following its board meeting on October 28, the Bank of Russia left the key rate unchanged at 7.5% per annum, which is in line with the analyst consensus forecast and financial market expectations. This decision was the result of a reversal in the inflationary trends, an increase in the...

At its Board of Directors meeting in June, the Bank of Russia raised the key rate for the third time since the beginning of the year, by 0.5 p.p. to 5.5% per annum. This decision was caused by an accelerated inflation triggered by reviving demand as the containment measures were being lifted,...

At its June meeting, for the first time this year, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to cut the key rate by 0.25 pp. to 7.5% per annum. Such a decision was motivated by the plunge of annual inflation in April-May 2019 to 5.1%, coupled with weakening inflation risks. The inflation...