Igor Nikolaev: "Economy in 2016"

"The economic prospects for the coming 2016 are already largely predetermined by how the country ended last year. It ended poorly. This is the first important circumstance. Because the Russian economy is quite cumbersome, institutionally not very well organized and, thus, very inertial. If 2015- Since it was a year of conservation of the economic crisis, it will be very difficult to reverse this situation in the new year, and frankly, impossible.

So, the official forecast for 2016, on the basis of which the federal budget for the coming year was adopted, is as follows: the economy (GDP) will grow by 0.7%, inflation will be 6.4%, and the average annual exchange rate of the US dollar will be 63.3 rubles. Do you believe it? “That’s it.”