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Anastasia Levchenko, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Industrial Organization and Infrastructure Economics Department spoke to Nezavisimaya Gazeta about the current state and growth areas of industrial cooperation within the EAEU.

The Bank of Russia should not rush to ease monetary policy just yet, despite calls to cut the key rate. This opinion RBC was expressed by Evgeny Goryunov, Head of the Monetary Policy Department at the Gaidar Institute.

Olga Rozanova, Senior Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s International Trade Department, told RBC how the extreme heat in Europe could affect the Russian economy.

A de facto duopoly between the U.S. and China has emerged in the global generative artificial intelligence market. Russia, however, has the potential to take its place among the secondary AI powers. This was reported to Izvestia by Kirill Chernovol, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department.

Starting October 1, 2026, digital platforms—including taxi services, delivery services, freelance marketplaces, and service aggregators—will begin restricting self-employed workers’ collaboration with a single client. Experts from the Center for Evidence-Based Analysis at the Gaidar Institute, in comments for RBC, noted that the new rules do not yet take into account many of the specific features of platform-based employment and require further refinement.

Deni Sugaipov, a research fellow at the Laboratory for Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes at the Gaidar Institute Deni Sugaipov, commented for Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the results of a study on the use of artificial intelligence by Russian scientists and explained why the widespread adoption of AI does not yet mean an increase in the effectiveness of scientific work.

Vladimir Sedalishchev, Expert at the Economic Policy Foundation of the Gaidar Institute, spoke to “Vzglyad” about the key trends shaping the global economy and explained how they affect Russia.

Sergey Drobyshevsky, Senior Researcher at the Gaidar Institute, in a commentary for RBC explained why prices for investment goods and services are rising faster than expected and assessed the impact of the key rate on investment activity.

In a comment to the Izvestia daily, Evgeny Goryunov, Head of the Gaidar Institute's Monetary Policy Department, assessed the latest inflation data and explained why a one-week price increase should not be taken as a sign of a change in the overall trend.

In a comment for Sovereign Economy telegram channel, Evgeny Goryunov, Head of the Gaidar Institute's Monetary Policy Department assessed the US regulator's plans to update its approaches to collecting and analyzing economic statistics.

Alexey Zamnius, researcher at the Gaidar Institute's Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes Department, plotted a graph of the dynamics of the human capital index per capita in China from 1950 to 2015, using data from Barro & Lee on the structure of the population's education (2013) and the Vollrath methodology (2020), which allows one to estimate the stock of human capital per capita taking into account not only years of education, but also their distribution by level of education.

Andrey Zubarev, Senior Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Digital Finance Studies Department, commented on the new law “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights,” which is set to take effect on July 1, 2026.

Kirill Chernovol, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department, in a comment for Izvestia, assessed the prospects for the development of closed-end mutual funds (CEF) and the reasons for their growth amid the unstable situation on the stock market.

Delaying retirement can significantly increase the amount of monthly payments. This was News.ru reported by Ivan Ermokhin, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department.

Kirill Chernovol, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department, commented for Forbes on the initiative to potentially limit the deduction of interest expenses on loans and borrowings when calculating corporate income tax.

Maria Girich, Researcher of the International Best Practices Analysis Department at the Gaidar Institute, spoke to Moscow 24 TV Channel.