Page 2 - RusRPTMar19

Table of contents
1.0 Executive summary
2.0 Politics
2.1 Government to take direct control of SOE investment programmes, dividend payments 2.2 Russia’s austerity taking the wind out of economic sails
2.3 Sales of newly launched Yandex smartphone flop
2.4 Russia to spend RUB26 trillion on National Projects
2.5 Kiosks are back as SMEs come into focus
2.6 New round of US sanctions looms
2.7 Russia’s CBR introduces, expands a P2P payment system designed to reduce Sberbank’s dominance 2.8 Putin’s generous social programme launched during the state of nation speech
2.9 Russia gets second female billionaire, Wildberries becomes the new Russian e-commerce poster-child 2.10 Moody’s mentions “unorganized regime change” for the first time
2.11 Russia prepares its third tax amnesty
2.12 More details released on Russia’s new hypersonic missiles
2.13 Watcom Shopping index off to a slow start in 2019
2.14 Russian business and consumer confidence
2.15 Putin & government’s popularity
2.16 Politics - misc
2.17 Polls & Sociology
3.0 Macro Economy
3.1 Macroeconomic overview 3.2 Macro outlook
4.0 Real Economy
4.1 Industrial production 4.2 Inflation
4.2.1 CPI dynamics
4.2.2 PPI dynamics
4.3 Industrial sectors and trade
4.3.1 Producers PMI
4.3.2 Corporate profits dynamics and M&A 4.4 Fixed investment
4.5 Labour and income
4.5.1 Labour market, unemployment dynamics 4.5.2 Income dynamics
4.5.3 Retail sector dynamics
5.0 External Sector & Trade
5.1 External sector overview
5.2 Balance of payments, current account
5.2.1 Import/export dynamics 5.2.2 Current account dynamics 5.2.3 Capital flight dynamics
5.2.4 Gross international reserves
5.3 FDI
6.0 Public Sector
6.1 Budget
2 RUSSIA Country Report March 2019
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