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• 24.12.2014
  PRIME Russia’s State Duma not about to revise core budget figures yet

  MOSCOW, December 24 (PRIME) -- The Russian State Duma, parliament’s lower chamber, see no grounds for the revision of the key figures of the 2015–2017 budget but will propose such an initiative if the situation worsens, First Deputy Speaker Alexander Zhukov told reporters on Wednesday.

• 23.12.2014
  Tass The Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will be the biggest association with a consumer market of more than 170 million people

  MOSCOW, December 23 (TASS) -- Heads of state of the Eurasian Economic Union member states on Tuesday signed 20 documents.

• 23.12.2014
  PRIME Russia demands exporters swap part of revenue for rubles

  MOSCOW, December 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian government has sent an order to the largest country’s exporters Gazprom, Rosneft, ALROSA, Zarubezhneft and Kristall diamond cutter to exchange part of their revenue into rubles and have their net foreign currency assets at a level equaling October 1 volumes by March 1, according to a statement published Tuesday.

• 23.12.2014
  PRIME Medvedev: Economy may slip into deep recession in 2015

  MOSCOW, December 23 (PRIME) -- The Russian economy may slip into a deep recession in 2015 and that must be taken into account when setting tasks, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.

• 23.12.2014
  Tass Moody’s expects further fall of Russian international reserves in 2015, but finds current amount of reserves substantial

  LONDON, December 23. TASS. -- International rating agency Moody’s Investors Services has downgraded Russian bond and deposit ceiling: positions of foreign currency non-sovereign bonds were lowered to Baa2 from A3, foreign currency deposit ceiling was reduced to Ba1 from Baa2 and national currency bond and deposit ceiling is lowered by one notch from A3 to Baa1.

• 11.12.2014
  Bank of Russia Bank of Russia raised its key interest rate up to 10.5%

  On December 11, 2014 the Bank of Russia’s Board of Directors decided to raise its key interest rate up to 10.50% per annum. In November - early December 2014 the acceleration of consumer prices’ growth continued.

• 10.12.2014
  PRIME Russian PM: 2015 budget may be adjusted if economic conditions change

  MOSCOW, Dec 10 (PRIME) -- Russia may adjust its 2015 budget depending on economic conditions, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with five Russian TV channels on Wednesday.

• 09.12.2014
  World Bank World Bank revises its growth projections for Russia for 2015 and 2016 Moscow, December 9, 2014 – The World Bank has updated its economic outlook for Russia for 2015 and 2016 to reflect a further decline and increased volatility in global oil prices. The revised outlook is articulated through three scenarios – a baseline, an upper, and a lower- case – based on different oil price assumptions

• 02.12.2014
  PRIME WB raises Russia’s 2014 GDP growth outlook to 0.7%

  World Bank raised Russia’s 2014 GDP growth outlook from 0.5% to 0.7%. According to a quarterly economic survey of the World Bank, in 2015 the World Bank expects zero growth in Russia instead of 0.3% growth under the September forecast.

• 02.12.2014
  PRIME Recession in 2014 may be avoided -- Russian Econ ministry

  MOSCOW, 2 December 2014 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Economic Development Ministry has cut its 2015 gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to a fall of 0.8% from a 1.2% growth, and increased its 2014 forecast to 0.6% from 0.5%, Deputy Minister Alexei Vedev told reporters Tuesday.

• 01.12.2014
  RIA The economic situation is complicated, but not critical – Central Bank of Russia

  MOSCOW, December 1 (RIA) – Russian Central Bank first deputy director Kseniya Yudayeva believes that there is a range of factors, including oil prices, that is pushing Russia to diversifying its economy.

• 25.11.2014
  PRIME S&P cuts Russian economic growth forecast for 2015 to 0.6%

  MOSCOW, Nov 25 (PRIME) -- Rating agency Standard & Poor’s has reduced the forecast for Russia’s 2015 economic growth to 0.6% from 1.1%, Senior Director Christian Esters said Tuesday at a press conference.

• 24.11.2014
  Tass Russia can lose about $90-100 billion due to the fall in oil prices — minister

  MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. Russia’s economy can lose at least $40 billion due to the geopolitical sanctions and $90-100 billion due to the fall in oil prices, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday.

• 21.11.2014
  PRIME China's exports to Russia for 10 months of 2014 was increased by 10%

  China’s exports to Russia for 10 months of 2014 amounted to 44.25 billion dollars, being increased by 10% compared to the same period of 2013, imports amounted to 34.63 billion (3.4% increase), told reporters Lin Zhi, head of the Europe and Central Asia department of Chinese Ministry of Economic Development.

  According to him, the trade turnover reached 78.89 billion US dollars and China’s trade surplus in the Russian-Chinese trade amounted to 9.62 billion US dollars.

  Along with that, the official stressed that the quality of our bilateral trade is more important than its quantity. "We would like 200 billion US dollars by 2020 to be a qualitative indicator rather than a mere increase of the trade turnover volume" - said Lin Zhi.

  According to the Chinese Ministry of Economic Development, China ranks the first among trading partners of Russia, and the Russian Federation in turn is on the 9th place in terms of trade with China.

• 21.11.2014
  Moscow City Duma Law “On the budget of the city of Moscow for 2015 and a planning period of 2016 and 2017” was adopted

  On 19 November 2014, the Moscow City Duma, after considering the second and final draft law, adopted the city budget for the next three years.

• 19.11.2014
  Ministry of Finance RF Ministry of Finance has placed OFZ maturing in 2016 in the amount of 0.5 billion rubles while offering 5 billion rubles

  On a today’s auction the RF Ministry of Finance has placed federal loan bonds with fixed coupon yield №25082RMFS maturing in May 2016 in the amount of 0.491 billion rubles, while offering 5 billion rubles. The weighted yield at the auction amounted to 10.06% per annum.

• 18.11.2014
  Moscow City Finance Department Moscow domestic bonds coupon payment

  On 17 November 2014 the Moscow City Finance Department made a payment of the coupon yield on the 10th coupon of Moscow domestic bonds № RU32064MOS0 in the amount of 429.5 million rubles.

• 18.11.2014
  Tass Moscow City Duma Commission supported 18 amendments for the second reading of the Moscow budget for 2015

  MOSCOW, Nov 18 (TASS) -- Moscow City Duma Committee on economic policy and finance supported 18 of 34 amendments proposed to the draft law “On the budget of the city of Moscow for 2015 and a planned period of 2016 and 2017.”

• 18.11.2014
  PRIME The decision to float the ruble was not sudden -- Nabiullina

  MOSCOW, Nov 18 (PRIME) -- The decision to float the ruble was not sudden, nor premature, Chairwoman Elvira Nabiullina said at a meeting with the State Duma, parliament’s lower chamber, on Tuesday.

  “The introduction of a floating ruble rate requires a period of adaptation, we cannot let the rate go abruptly,” she said.

  The central bank reserves its right for sudden large-scale interventions on the foreign exchange market, Nabiullina said.

  She also added that any limits on foreign currency market speculations prescribed by legislation would be inefficient.

• 14.11.2014
  BUDGET “Budget” magazine published an article of the head of SBI “Mosfinagency” D. Mikhailov “The consumer demand as the Russian economy’s growth engine”

  The consumer demand has served as the Russian economy’s growth engine during the entire post-crisis period. Its constant expansion was provided by the income increase, healthy labor market and a high level of borrowings of the population. But 2013 was a turning point in the consumer demand’s continuous acceleration, and in the medium term the trajectory of this growth will slow down.