Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) may fall by 0.6% this year but go up by 0.5-0.8% next year meaning that recession will be over soon, Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister and the current head of the Center for Strategic Research, said. The Economic Development Ministry expects the economy to contract 0.6% in 2016 and…
IMF mission presented the report on economic situation in Belarus. The report mentions that during 2015-2016 economic condition in Belarus was defined by “the decrease in national currency rate, salaries and at the same time growth of unemployment”. Moreover, IMF forecasts further economic decrease. Without structural reforms minor growth (+0.5%) can be expected in 2018.…
Russia is in general ready to back a freeze of oil production, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev reported. “We’ve already said that we are ready to support efforts in freezing oil production. The level of the freeze is a question that has to be discussed, but in general we are ready to support the idea”,…
VTB Capital, an investment advisor in privatization of the government’s 50.08% stake in Russian oil company Bashneft, has recommended selling the stake in a single lot, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said. “The advisor’s recommendation is a sale in a single lot”, he said. “We are completely ready for that, and I mean VTB Capital,…
Russia’s Natural Resource and Environment Ministry and the U.N. have approved the first document that will bring the country’s classification of oil and gas resources closer to the U.N. classification, the ministry said in a statement. This document has become the first document that has tied the U.N. framework classification with a national system. The…
Ukraine is waiting for the fourth tranche of the U.S. government-secured $1 billion. “Along with the proposal on technical assistance we hope to continue cooperation in getting the new U.S. government-secured $1 billion. The credit guarantees are used to settle urgent needs of the budget and they are provided at very low rates after the…
The government is making all necessary steps to ensure that over the next 4-5 years Ukraine could become a country with a strong national economy, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman announced during the opening ceremony of electrical equipment and automotive parts plant of the Fujikura company in the Lviv region. The Prime Minister stressed…