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 World Bank has compiled a list of countries by the level of trade surplus by the end of 2023. In total, US$23.3 trillion worth of goods were exported worldwide, and US$22.9 trillion worth of goods were imported. The total surplus amounted to US$365 billion. In terms of the countries with the highest positive trade […]
We rarely comment about the sanctions regime here on RPA mainly because we deal with trade and investment issues and also as the topic is usually well covered elsewhere. However, the news that Unilever are to slash their European workforce by 30% is a predictable result of sanctions being placed upon Russia and political pressure […]
Representatives of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) expect to come to a substantive conclusion of negotiations on signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by the autumn of 2024, the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has said. This followed statements by Andrei Slepnev, the EEC Trade Minister and Thani bin Ahmed […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been in Moscow holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in discussions likely to have far-reaching, positive consequences for Russia-India bilateral trade as well as the BRICS group. There are however, technical problems to solve. A major stumbling block is that India buys far more from Russia than vice […]
Cyprus loses a major Russian client to Kazakhstan’s fiscal gain as Western exits increase The Russian chain of low cost retailers, Fix Price has redomiciled its corporate PLC entity from Cyprus to the Astana International Financial Centre in Kazakhstan. Fix Price operate over 6,500 retail stores worldwide, with 2023 revenues of ₽291.9 billion (US$3.3 billion) […]
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The Russian Ministry of the Economy has been assessing the effectiveness of the 44 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the country, including their fiscal effectiveness. SEZs are attractive investments for foreign investors as they typically offer reduced corporate income tax rates – typically zero for the first three-five years and at a 50% discount for […]
The World Bank has recognised Russia as a high-income nation in its official global rankings, after stating that the average Russian gross national income per capita in Russia is US$14,250, which at current exchange rates, in local Ruble terms is ₽1,260,940. The World Bank Group assigns the world’s economies to four income groups: low, […]
The role of national currencies in global trade is changing, as countries look at ways of at least partial minimisation of exposure to the US dollar. We discuss the evolutionary trends. Two main global financial evolutionary events are happening at the same time: the first is changes to the role of the US dollar, […]
Government fiscal income revenues from Russian imports will have declined in the West and increased in the East by tens of billions of dollars Russia’s exports actually increased by US$31 billion after the West imposed trade sanctions, according to open-source intelligence calculated by Sputnik, itself based on data from Russia’s Federal Customs Service. While […]
Russia’s exchange rate-linked export duty will decrease to 4.5% from July 1 from 5.5%, the Economic Development Ministry has stated. The decrease will impact a wide range of goods including ferrous, nonferrous and precious metals, coal (the export duty on coal was temporarily lifted from May 1 to August 31) and fertilizers. Russia approved a […]
The mutual trade volume within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in the first quarter of 2024 increased by ₽2 trillion (US$22.5 billion), according to Dmitry Volvach, a Deputy Minister of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development of Russia. He was speaking at the ‘Export to the EAEU countries’ conference of interregional cooperation in Novosibirsk last […]
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