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Rising consumer debt in Russia.
The company is trying to attract more middle-class Kazakhstanis to undertake foreign travel, having announced on April 1 the start of a new economy sleeper class route from Astana…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB199792
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The size of the rate hike attests to the CBR’s determination to tame domestic price rises at all costs, even though this is likely to restrict credit growth and dampen output. The…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281638
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Banking-sector stability is vital for the functioning of the Russian economy: bank credit is facilitating economic restructuring. Although the sector withstood the first impact of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278809
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Russian economic policy-making.
Political upheaval in late November in the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) -- one of two rebel-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine -- has not affected the overall dynamics…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227438
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The expansion into retail reflects the transition of state-controlled Sberbank, Russia's largest bank from financial institution into a digital 'ecosystem' rebranded as Sber. Its…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261102
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Delhi last month banned wheat exports except in cases where letters of credit for shipments have already been issued and where foreign governments request supplies to help meet…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270778
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President Bashar al-Assad does not control most of the local and foreign militias that operate in his name in Syria. Some of those follow the policies of Iran’s Islamic Revolution…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB231885
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Fiscal and monetary stimuli and a policy-induced credit boom have combined with the broad normalisation of social life to contain COVID-19's impact on economic output. However…