Let us see and wait. Your ailine Dobrolet (or how it was called) already went down the toilet.
And russias biggest travel corporation...went down the toilet.
In spite of a stagnation in GDP, Russia has seen an unusual increase in industrial activity. According to research conducted by HSBC Bank and the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Russia has posted an increase in industrial production for the third month in a row. "The manufacturing sector is quite effective in meeting demand and, in spite of the overall economic situation and expert forecasts, it has maintained positive growth,” the Gaidar Institute study reads.
According to the authors of the study, engineering and metallurgical companies, which secured an additional share of the domestic market as a result of the ban on supplies from Ukraine, have posted better results.
They were joined in August 2014 by sectors focusing on domestic consumption, including the food industry, which is also counting on replacing some imported food products. However, according to analysts, import substitution could not have started in June 2014, and the industrial growth is in fact a consequence of the events of February-March 2014, when the ruble underwent a slight devaluation.
According to UFS IC senior analyst Alexei Kozlov, Russian industrial production rose in August for several reasons, the first of which is “the increase in demand for products from the metallurgical sector, as a result of the need to replace the supply of products from Ukraine,” he said.
Ruble devaluation and sanctions result in growth for Russian manufacturing | Russia Beyond The Headlines