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Author-Name:  Sergey Zhavoronkov
Author-Name-First:  Sergey                      
Author-Name-Last: Zhavoronkov  
Author-Workplace-Name:  Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Title:  THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RESULTS OF JUNE 2015
Abstract: In June 2015, the EU states extended for another six months the economic sanctions introduced against Russia, as before linking this issue to the fulfi llment of the Minsk agreements. At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum held this month, several deals were concluded, the biggest among them being the sale, by Rosneft to BP, of a 20% stake in an East Siberian oil producer company; however, the negotiations on another deal in the natural gas sector – the construction of a second pipeline to Germany, the second Russian-Chinese pipeline for gas deliveries via the Western route, or a pipeline to Greece – are still in the phase of memorandums of intentions. The decision on moving the parliamentary election from December to September 2016 was approved in fi rst reading;
Alexei Kudrin’s initiative that it should be timed with the presidential election was supported neither by the RF President’s Executive Offi ce nor the parliament.
Classification-JEL:  K0,  K1,  K4,  D73,  D74 
Keywords: :  THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RESULTS
Journal: Russian Economic Developments
Year: 2015 
Issue: 7
Month: July
Pages: 2-5
File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/546Zhavoronkov.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:546