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In October-December 2022, Russia’s overall foreign debt increased by 1.3% and was equal to $326.6bn. In his comments to МК.RU, Dr. Alexey Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department at the Gaidar Institute, noted that the current foreign debt situation was rather complicated and needed details.

Ekaterina Ponomareva, Head of the Cross-Cutting Area of Competence of the Strategic Group of the Coordination Center under the RF Government, the Gaidar Institute expert, told the «Finansy Mail.ru» on how the decision on revising the terms and conditions of preferential mortgage loan issuing might affect the real-estate market.

Dr. Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department at the Gaidar Institute, explained to RBC, what the improvement of Rosstat's GDP estimates for 2022 mean and why this indicator does not fully reflect the real state of the economy.

Natalia Shagaida, Head of the Agrarian Department at the Gaidar Institute, shared her view in a comment to Agroinvestor on installing free food shelves in stores for socially vulnerable people.

Dr. Alexey Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department at the Gaidar Institute, former Deputy Minister of economic development of the Russian Federation, was interviewed by Oxu.Az, where he commented on the forecast on oil prices by the Danish Investment Saxo Bank.

The economic forecast for the most important indicators of the Russian economy for 2024, compiled by Dr. Alexey Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department at the Gaidar Institute, was published in Moskovsky Komsomolets. The expert shared his vision on the following key macroeconomic indicators: the level of GDP, inflation, ruble exchange rate, budget deficit, real incomes and oil prices.

In his interview with the Invest-Forsait , Alexei Vedev, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of the Financial Studies Department of the Gaidar Institute spoke about successes and failures of 2022.

The Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily has presented the opinion of Evgeny Goryunov, Senior Researcher of the Gaidar Institute that the level of public confidence makes the RF Central Bank to pursue inflation targets by tougher measures.

Alexei Vedev, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of the Financial Studies Department of the Gaidar Institute has told the TRT Russian what the US Dollar/Rouble exchange rate is going to be like in December.

Alexei Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department at the Gaidar Institute, named the causes for weakening of the Russian currency exchange rate in a comment to MK.

The article of Nezavisimaya Gazeta reflects the issue of whether the staffing situation in industry will be changed by recruiting more migrants. Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of Business Services Department at the Gaidar Institute, concluded that raise in wages remains the most effective measure to combat staffing deficit.

Igor Efremov, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute, commented to the Nizhny Novgorod Novoe Delo newspaper on the draft bill under consideration regarding stricter abortions in private clinics.

Igor Efremov, a Researcher at the Gaidar Institute, feels confident that new legislative restrictions on induced termination of pregnancy will only worsen the demographic situation in Russia. The RBC published the expert’s opinion.

The draft federal budget for 2024 and the planned period of 2025-2026 submitted by the Russian government to the Parliament provides for the use of funds from privatization of federal property as a separate source of financing the federal budget deficit. At the same time, the draft of the relevant federal law, as well as a similar document of a year ago, does not contain information on the specific amount of revenues from privatization neither in the main part nor in the annexes. Only the explanatory note and a number of accompanying materials indicate funds from privatization of federal property along with government borrowings as an independent source of financing the federal budget deficit.

Sergei Tsukhlo, Head of the Business Surveys Laboratory at the Gaidar Institute, spoke to Nezavisimaya Gazeta about the situation on the Russian labor market and explained the reasons for the outflow of personnel in the machine building sector.

Dr. Alexei Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department at the Gaidar Institute, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, who supervised macroeconomic forecasting, gave a comment to URA.ru on the results of the meeting on economic issues, which was held by the Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 1.