Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name:Izryadnova Olga Author-Name-First: Olga Author-Name-Last:Izryadnova Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Production of the microstructure in Russia in 2015 Abstract: The main factors behind development of the Russian economy in the past two years were as follows: shrinkage of external demand and depreciation of prices on Russia’s main primary sector commodities which make up the basis of the export potential; weakening of domestic demand due to a drop in revenues of the economy and growth in costs; narrowing of the extent of imports which formed over one-third of domestic market resources; reduction of volumes of domestic and foreign capital investments. Classification-JEL: G28 Keywords: Russian economy, production, microstructure Creation-Date: 2016 Revision-Date:2016 Length: 15 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2016-266.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2016 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2016-266