Vasily Ya Uzun

• Professor
• The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russia

Kudrin A., Radygin A., Sinelnikov-Murylev S. (ed.) (2022) Russian Economy in 2021. Trends and Outlooks. (Issue 43) – М.: Gaidar Institute Publishers. 568 pp.| ||| The review “Russian Economy. Trends and Outlooks” has been published by the Gaidar Institute since 1991. This is the 43th issue. This publication provides a detailed analysis of of the mo...

Кудрин А.Л., Мау В.А., Радыгин А.Д., Синельников-Мурылев С.Г. (ред.). Российская экономика в 2021 году. Тенденции и перспективы. (Вып. 43) – Москва: Изд-во Ин-та Гайдара, 2022. – 604 с. ||| Обзоры «Российская экономика. Тенденции и перспективы» издаются Институтом Гайдара с 1991 года, настоящий обзор – это уже 43 выпуск. В работе содержится подробн...

Relevance. In the normative legal documents and scientific publications, various options for the policy of providing Russia with seeds are considered. In most of them, the emphasis is on increasing the share of the sown seeds of domestic selection (including those produced in the country or abroad), the share of seeds of domestic production (includ...

Kudrin A.L., Mau V.A., Radygin A.D., Sinelnikov-Murylev S.G. (Ed.). Russian Economy in 2020. Trends and Outlooks. (Issue 42) – М.: Gaidar Institute Publishers, 2021. 668 pp. /// The review “Russian Economy. Trends and Outlooks” has been published by the Gaidar Institute since 1991. This is the 42th issue. This publication provides a detailed analys...

Agroholdings have become a major player in Russian agriculture in less than two decades. Nevertheless, there is no legal definition of agroholding as an organisation, and no statistical information on agroholdings as a distinct category is collected. Only informal definitions exist, which regard agroholdings as groupings of agricultural enterprises...

The article presents the results of a study aimed at proving the existence of systematic error in traditional calculations of long-term growth rates of agricultural production based on chain indices of agricultural production. According to the authors, the article also introduces a more accurate assessment of its dynamics with the account to the st...

The bankruptcy of large agricultural holdings has a very significant impact on production volumes, agricultural incomes, government spending on agricultural development and its effectiveness, consumer spending on food. This is illustrated with the case of the agricultural holding “Eurodon” which became bankrupt in 2019. Its bankruptcy brought down...

This is the first study that painstakingly assembles a full list of more than 1,000 agroholdings in Russia and analyzes the corresponding data from the two agricultural surveys (2006 and 2016) as well as other official sources. The study examines the role of agroholdings in Russian agriculture and estimates some performance measures.

The review “Russian Economy. Trends and Outlooks” has been published by the Gaidar Institute since 1991. This is the 40th issue. This publication provides a detailed analysis of main trends in Russian economy, global trends in social and economic development. The paper contains 6 big sections that highlight different aspects of Russia's economic de...

The article analyzes the most important institutional and structural changes in the agriculture of Russia in 2006—2016. The research has shown that the policy of reducing state participation in agricultural enterprises, increasing the concentration of property and management in the hands of a smaller number of individuals, growing share of agricult...

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Russian agriculture has shown stable growth since 1999. Russia has re-emerged on the world arena as a food exporter and now ranks first in wheat exports. The food trade balance steadily improves and the share of imported food in retail markets is decreasing due to the government's import substitution policies. Domestic production is now close to sa...

Russian Economy in 2017. Trends and Outlooks. (Issue 39) – М.: Gaidar Institute Publishers, 2018. 544 pp. ||| The review “Russian economy in 2017. Trends and outlooks” has been published by the Gaidar Institute since 1991. This is the 39th issue. This publication provides a detailed analysis of main trends in Russian economy, global trends in socia...

The goals of Russia’s agricultural policies since 1989 can be divided into two periods corresponding to the reigns of the two presidents—Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin was one of the authors of land reform in Russia, and his land reform efforts dominated the period 1990 to 1999. Yeltsin’s reform policies were limited and inconclusive. Th...

The post-Soviet period has been characterised by the abandonment of land across the Russian Federation. Today, Russia has regained a prominent role in wheat markets. With improved market conditions (such as higher grain prices), the recultivation of these abandoned areas may increase grain exports in the medium term and thus further enhance Russia’...

The article focuses on the concept of national interest, for the sake of which the Russian government implemented an embargo on the supply of food to Russia. It is shown that its implementation had a positive effect for agricultural producers and a negative effect for consumers. The economies of the countries that fell under the embargo did not suf...

In this chapter, we evaluate and analyse the outcomes of agrarian reform in the post-Soviet Russian Federation. The reform has led to a clear change in the agrarian system in Russia, but not all the population, especially not all rural people, have come out as winners. The observed increase in agricultural labour productivity has been accompanied b...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the wheat production developments in the Eurasian region and assesses the potential contribution of the region to domestic and international food security. In particular, the book covers policy and institutional developments of the agricultural sector in Eurasia with a special focus on the horizontal issue...

На основании анализа российской и зарубежной практики регулирования рынка зерна и компьютерных экспериментов на имитационной модели российского рынка пшеницы установлены причины, по которым меры по регулированию российского рынка зерна не достигали, как правило, целей, сформулированных в Законе о развитии сельского хозяйства, принятом в 2006 г. Об...

Most of the countries counter-sanctioned by Russia have seen no decline in food exports, increasing them to other countries to compensate for losses in the Russian market. Only a few countries have experienced a decline in exports due to the Russian food embargo, namely Norway (a total decline of 11.3%, of which the Russian market accounts for 10.1...

In this paper the authors clarify the concept of “national interest”, for the sake of which the embargo on food deliveries to Russia was introduced on August 7, 2014. Its impact on Russian agricultural producers, consumers and countries under embargo has been estimated. We find that the embargo had a positive effect on producers of agricultural pro...

The situation in the agriculture and with food supplies can be characterized by a number of trends: • there is high food inflation in Russia for the fourth time in the past ten years; its level does not exceed so far the indices of 2007, 2008 and 2010 • reduction of households’ real income resulted in a decrease in demand on food; stable trend of...

Russian Abstract: Систематизированы предпосылки проведения аграрной реформы в России; обобщена теория и практика ее осуществления, проведен сравнительный анализ Столыпинской и Ельцинской аграрных реформ; дана оценка положительных и отрицательных последствий реформирования; сформулированы уроки реформы, новые вызовы, стоящие в области структурной пе...

Russian Abstract: В работе приведена краткая характеристика сельского хозяйства России, Беларуси, Казахстана и Армении, показана роль стран во взаимной торговле, выявлены товары, интервенция которых потенциально может негативно повлиять на российских сельхозпроизводителей, оценена возможность расширения их экспансии. На основе функционирования ЕС в...

The article is focused on the problem of monitoring and evaluation of food security. The necessity of changing the existing Russian approaches is proved, a system of indicators and methods of their calculation are proposed, calculations of integral index of food independence are developed, economic access to the food for the population with differe...

From the largest importer of grain that the country used to be in the Soviet times, Russia has evolved into its net exporter. The potential for increasing grain exports by means of reclaiming abandoned lands is being examined. There are as well opportunities for boosting grain production by means of improving yields and applying modern technologies...

Russian Abstract: Проведен анализ существующей земельной политики в отношении земель сельскохозяйственного назначения в сопоставлении с декларируемыми целями земельной политики. Рассмотрены направления: обеспечение доступа к земле для сельского хозяйства, сохранение природного ресурса, доступ к кредитам, обеспеченным землей, к сельскохозяйственным...

This article analyzes the implications of World Trade Organization (WTO) accession for Russian agricultural policy. Using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data on producer support from 2010, we identify two major characteristics of Russian agricultural and trade policy (a) reliance on sizeable differences between world...

Russian Abstract: Присоединение к ВТО обострило дискуссию о последствиях для сельхозпроизводителей, которые опасаются, что российские продукты не смогут конкурироватьвать с более дешевыми импортными. В работе представлен анализ мер государственной поддержки сельского хозяйства России и их соответствия новым вызовам. Предложена адаптация мероприятий...

At present about 4% of Russia’s GDP is generated in agriculture; however, the sector still accounts for 9.7% of the total number of employed in domestic economy with 26% of the country’s population living in rural areas. The latter indicator has remained actually unchanged throughout the 10 recent years.

The article deals with the features of the Russian policy of agriculture support in comparison with the EU and the US policies. Comparative analysis is held considering the scales and levels of collective agriculture support, sources of supporting means, levels and mechanisms of support of agricultural production manufacturers, its consumers, agrar...

This study conveys the impact of corporate ownership on economic performance of agroholdings – integrated agricultural, processing, marketing, financial and industrial business units in Russia’s agro-food sector. Using a unique database of the All-Russian Nikonov-Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics, we investigate 151 agroholdings in Rus...

This article examines ten myths that it claims too often distort analysis of agrarian reform in Russia.

For decades, Russian agriculture had had little technological progress and virtually no foreign investment, which resulted in a stable production possibilities frontier and made the sector ideally suited to production function analysis. The production function estimations reported in Chapters 10-13 add to a series of previous studies of the input/o...

The study is focused on up-to-date tendencies in the development of big and small business in Russian agriculture, their characteristics and adaptation to the market. The impact of economic and ethnographic factors as well as climate conditions and agrarian policy on the development of big and small business in agriculture is analyzed. The author o...

Russian farms are classified into large and small agricultural businesses depending on both their volume of operations and organisational form. The article examines the development of these two groups of farms during the transition and their adaptation to the new market conditions. The effect of regional factors and agricultural policies on the cha...

Russia has had a formal program of land reform and farm restructuring in place since 1991. Land and asset shares have been distributed to most farm workers, but the legal status of these shares remains ambiguous, and the practical mechanisms for exit of individuals and restructuring of the large farm enterprises are mostly undecided. After four yea...

During perestroika period (19851991) and when the agrarian reform was planned and actually carried out in Russia (19922000) a lot of myths emerged about its targets, methods, and consequences. More than 20 years have passed, but many authors instead of analyzing real processes that take place in modern agriculture in Russia still repeat the old myt...