The Russian economy is transitioning, with economic pressures such as inflation, moderate growth and sanctions all contributing to a dampened performance in 2025. However, this is partially offset by significant infrastructure building, high military related output, and increasing foreign reserves and industrial progress in key economic areas. It is also diversifying beyond energy to include new vital technology-driven sectors. Get vital data on Russia’s economy for business decision-making. Analysis of macroeconomic trends, investment climate, and economic policies impacting your operations and investments in the country.
The sixth Russia-China Energy Business Forum (RCEBF) has been taking place in Moscow, with over 500 politicians, heads of major companies in the energy and related industries, scientists, experts and analysts attending. Russia and China discussed issues of cooperation related to energy and the supply of hydrocarbons. The RCEBF has been held annually since 2018 […]
Mass Digital Ruble Usage Expected By July 2025 In an effort to intensify, speed up, and broaden the available tools used for settling international transactions, the Russian State Duma has passed, in its first reading, a bill that opens the way for the Bank of Russia to launch an experimental platform for the use of […]
Russia has risen to the eighth place in global manufacturing output, according to a report issued by “Make UK”, a British institution that represents UK manufacturers and competitive markets. The report includes a wide variety of data about the contribution of manufacturing to different economies including exports, sectoral breakdown, R&D investment, salary levels and provides […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered plans to be developed for major state-run companies to relocate their headquarters from Moscow to other parts of the country. The move is aimed at boosting regional budgets, help alleviate labor shortages, and reflect the growing importance of Russian development towards Asia. De-centralization would also boost the economies of […]
Changes in Russia’s policy towards allowing Foreign banks to operate in the county are in the pipeline, as growing problems with cross-border payments have forced the government and the Central Bank to agree to open branches of foreign banks in Russia. These have been strictly prohibited in recent decades. Additionally, Russian officials are ready to […]
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In a world where de-dollarization has become the byword for independent sovereignty, there has been a lot of talk about BRICS currency, cross-border settlements in national currencies, and much speculative guesstimating. However, what is the root program that has been developed to enable cross-border settlements to handle transactions in different sovereign national Central Bank Digital […]
One of the difficulties when reporting statistics concerning Russia or the European Union in these chaotic times is the ultra-partisan nature of contemporary thought. Anything pro-Russian or Western-negative is automatically regarded as suspect and not to be trusted. Such items are also avoided as subjects for discussion in Western media. Hiding the truth has always […]
Several countries want to upgrade their relations with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the group’s Secretary-General Zhang Ming has stated. The SCO is a multifunctional trade, security and geopolitical alliance formed in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, primarily to deal with the repercussions of the United States and NATO invasion of […]
Other unexpected bonuses are increasing Russia’s taxable corporate income from foreign investors originating from unfriendly countries as a direct result of sanctions being placed upon the country. Political pressures are also being placed on foreign investors to exit. It is another example of political thinking in the West apparently being divided from the fiscal repercussions. […]
Russian and foreign investors are starting to become more savvy over tax incentives on offer in Russia’s Special Administrative Regions (SAR), increasing their investments by almost a third since the beginning of this year. The two SAR that Russia currently has are sited in Kaliningrad, in Western Russia, and Russky Island, Vladivostok in the Primorye […]
Almost 113,000 Russian tourists visited Cuba in the first half of 2024, according to Cristina Leon Iznaga, a diplomat at the Cuban Embassy to Russia in Moscow. She said that Havana hopes that the figure will increase to 200,000 by the end of the year. Iznaga said that “In January-June, Cuba was visited by 112,700 […]
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