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The Kommersant, in its assessment of the pace of industrial production, refers to a study by Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of the Business Surveys Department at the Gaidar Institute.

Natalia Shagaida, Head of the Gaidar Institute’s Agrarian Department, spoke to Forbes on whether it would make sense to invest in projects related to agriculture.

Leading researcher at the Gaidar Institute Ilya Sokolov commented to Ura.ru on the government decision to exempt regions from repaying budgetary loans in 2022.

Import substitution requires private investment and reform of the postgraduate education system, as stated in the feature on the situation in Russian science published in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Irina Dezhina, Doctor of Economic Sciences and leading researcher at the Gaidar Institute, notes that if funding for science remains unchanged, the outflow of human resources may increase, and not because of emigration, but due to the fact that many areas of activity look more attractive in some respects than scientific research.

In order to prevent a famine in North Africa, the EU countries are discussing the issue of exporting barley, wheat and corn from Ukraine. Natalya Shagaida, Head of the Gaidar Institute’s Agrarian Department, said in an interview with BFM.RU that the famine will primarily affect African countries, and could cause serious unrest there. 

Finmarket.ru has published data on record values of the index of conflict of the business environment in Q1 2022. According to Stepan Zemtsov, Senior Researcher, Innovation Economics Department of the Gaidar Institute, growth of this index can prove upswing of domestic entrepreneurs.

Stabilizing inflation in the Russian Federation allows Russian authorities to switch to a new phase of monetary policy (MP). Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev, Rector of the Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Academic Director of the Gaidar Institute, shared this opinion with TASS.

Within three months of sanctions aggravation, the largest shortages of stocks of finished products in Russian industry were registered in the chemical, machine building and food industry. Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of Business Surveys Laboratory of the Gaidar Institute, spoke about it to Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

The “Expert” magazine quotes opinion of Natalia Shagaida, Head of Agrarian Department of the Gaidar Institute, as saying that the threat of global hunger is not related to possible food shortages, rather to a decline in the world population incomes due to a drop of economic activity during the pandemic. 

The "Kommersant” continues its series of publications on the state of Russian industry, citing the findings of a study by Sergei Tsukhlo, Head of Business Surveys Laboratory of the Gaidar Institute. 

Having received the report on the Central Bank's monetary policy, “Delovoy Peterburg” cites data showing that demand for loans increased in March and April, while the number of troubled borrowers did not noticeably went up. However, lending dynamics may deteriorate in the coming months due to the deepening crisis caused by large-scale anti-Russian sanctions, said Alexey Vedev, Head of the Financial Studies Department of the Gaidar Institute, at the International Congress of Financiers held in St. Petersburg in late April.

Alexander Knobel, Head of International Trade Department of the Gaidar Institute, told “Kommersant” about the consequences of Russia’s withdrawal from the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The ruble's real effective exchange rate rose by 34% in April, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” reported. Sergey Zubov, Senior researcher at the Financial Studies Department of the Gaidar Institute, believes that the ruble's appreciation is a positive phenomenon, but it does not nullify inflation, however, it evidences a relatively low level of inflation challenges compared to the EU and other countries.

Natalia Shagaida, Head of Agrarian Department of the Gaidar Institute, commented to “Nezavisimaya Gazeta: on the state of affairs at the global food market.

In mid-March, the Ministry of Agriculture of Bashkortostan announced the resumption of state support for agricultural cooperatives. Natalia Shagaida, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Head of Agrarian Department of the Gaidar Institute, spoke to RBC Ufa about the capacity for the development of agricultural production.

Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of Business Surveys Department of the Gaidar Institute, shared the results of the industrial enterprises surveys, which noted a surge of optimism in April, in a commentary to Nezavisimaya Gazeta.