Russia’s foreign trade surplus decreased by 48.1% YoY to $63.1 billion in January-September, the central bank said. In January-September 2015, the foreign trade surplus amounted to $118.2 billion. (Prime/Business World Magazine)
Construction of Russia-led Turkish Stream gas pipeline will start in 2018, gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reported. “A start to the project implementation has been given. Under our plan, construction will begin in 2018”, he said. Russia and Turkey signed an agreement to build the pipeline, which would consist of two branches with a…
The share of Turkish goods hit by Russian sanctions introduced early in 2016 accounted for 22% in the structure of Russian import from Turkey or nearly $1 billion in 2015, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development said in draft customs and tariff policy guidelines for 2017-2019. If Russian sanctions continue to be in effect by…
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak expects the international oil surplus to fall by about 1 million barrels per day (bpd) until the end of 2016, Novak reported. On September 27, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut output by between 200,000 and 700,000 barrels a day. The 14-nation oil-producing group controls over…
Russia’s consumer price inflation will amount to 5.4-5.5% in 2016, below the official forecast of 5.8%, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev reported. “Our accumulated inflation now stands at 4.1% since the start of the year and 6.4% compared with the corresponding last year period”, he said. “It will be around 0.4% in each of the…
Russia has agreed to cut the 2016 gas price and has outlined a plan of further reductions for the next few years for Belarus, while Minsk agreed to redeem a $300 million debt for past deliveries, government officials said. “The debt, which has accrued for January gas payments will be redeemed fully until October 20.…
Russia is considering shipping 100,000 tons of wheat to Syria as humanitarian aid, a source at Russia’s Agriculture Ministry reported, adding this volume could be supplied via the Black Sea and paid for by Russia’s government. “We will decide on this by the year-end”, the source said. He added that Russia would be also ready…