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Alexander Knobel, Head of the Foreign Trade Department, Gaidar Institute commented to the ТАSS, News Agency on the impact of the global inflation surge on the Russian economy owing to introduction of export quotas and damping mechanisms.

Russia will have to sacrifice economic growth rates for financial stability, said Alexei Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute to the IА REGNUM on December 28, 2021.

In 2021 the Indian economy will show growth of 7%−7.5%, Alexei Vedev, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute believes. Alexei Vedev commented to the IA REGNUM on the forecasts of Cebr, an UK-based consulting company, that the Chinese economy would become the leading one by 2030. India is expected to outperform France, while Germany leaves behind Japan by 2033.

Natalia Shagaida, Head of the Agrarian Policy Department, Gaidar Institute told the Agroinvestor, that prices of goods which were rarely exported, such as potatoes, cabbages and carrots, appreciated the most. Natalia Shagaida commented on President Vladimir Putin’s statement at the annual press-conference that Russia should return to the inflation target of 4%.

Alexei Vedev, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute told the АiF.ru which factors would underpin and weaken the Russian national currency in January 2022.

Vera Barinova, Head of the Innovation-Driven Economy Department, Gaidar Institute told the IА REGNUM that the RF Government was expected to prolong business support measures to SME in 2022.

Sergei Tsukhlo, Head of the Business Surveys Department, Gaidar Institute answered the questions of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta about industrial producer price increases in Russia; as per Rosstat’s data they appreciated by nearly 30% over a year, having exceeded by 200% the consumer price inflation. It is noteworthy that the manufacturing is not only increasing output, but has already surpassed the pre-pandemic level.

The Vedomosti daily published a survey by the TrendFox Agency on what the year 2022 was going to be like Alexei Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute told about the challenges and opportunities for the Russian economy in 2022.

In the Izvestia daily op-ed column, Alexei Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute shared his economic forecast for 2022.

Alexei Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute commented to the Izvestia daily on the efficiency of the RF Central Bank’s measures.

Sergei Tsukhlo, Head of the Business Surveys Department, Gaidar Institute shared his views with the Kommersant daily on industrial output dynamic in December.

As noted in the position paper “Price Adjustment: When to Stop?” published at the website of the RF Central Bank, targeted aid to people in need is more efficient than adjustment of food prices. Natalia Shagaida, Head of the Agrarian Policy Department, Gaidar Institute holds the same view.

In his interview to IА REGNUM,Stepan Zemtsov, Senior Research Associate of the Innovation-Driven Economy Department, Gaidar Institute said that at present it was premature to speak about the stabilization of the SME situation in Russia. Such was his comment on the RF Ministry of Economic Development’s conclusions regarding the stabilization of the situation in the SME sector.

In November, the FAO Food Price Index kept growing. Natalia Shagaida, Head of the Agrarian Policy Department, Gaidar Institute told Agroinvestor about the factors which caused food price hikes and the measures to be taken to push them down.

Commenting to the TASS News Agency the accelerating rate of inflation of 8.4% which approached the five-year record high in November, Alexander Knobel, Head of the International Trade Department, Gaidar Institute said that the increased rates of inflation were still one of the main pandemic-related implications caused by developed countries’ measures to underpin demand.

Over the past 13 years, officials of the RF Ministry of Economic Development have developed minimum four long-term forecasts with expectations of high growth rates of the economy and households’ incomes, as well as predictable inflation. However, almost all indicators laid in the documents failed to materialize. At first, they were disrupted by the crisis of 2008–2009 and the crisis of 2014–2015, while later, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexei Vedev, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of the Financial Studies Department, Gaidar Institute told the Izvestia daily why the agency in question developed unrealistic forecasts.