In the third quarter of 2012, the economy chalked up its 55th straight quarter of growth and surprised analysts on the upside by growing 7.1 percent. The economy has apparently stabilized at 5 to 6 percent per annum recently, but the Finance Ministry […]
Read MoreIf Russia’s economy is going to develop more diversity, one of the most important factors will be the ability to create a strong sector of small and medium-sized enterprises that […]
Read MoreThe Russian banking sector successfully weathered what might be described as a “pseudo-crisis” in early July, providing further evidence that the economy and financial system had developed to a point […]
Read MoreThe inter-bank liquidity crisis in June that followed the withdrawal of licenses from two banks for money laundering provoked, perhaps inevitably, much speculation about a banking crisis, and once again […]
Read MoreIan Pryde was sole author of the 200-page report: Russia 1998: Annual Report on Government, Economy, the Business Environment, Capital Markets and Industry, with Forecasts through end-2000. Russia 1998 contains […]
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