All posts by Anastasya Manuilova

About Anastasya Manuilova

Anastasya Manuilova is an economics reporter for the Russian newspaper Kommersant, covering welfare, labour markets, demographic change and the pharmaceutical industry

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  Russian retirement ages to rise as demographics squeeze pensions pot

  Russia has announced a rise in the retirement age, with the goal of avoiding deficits in the state pension fund as the proportion of pensioners to taxpayers grows within an

  • Posted July 31, 2018
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  Russia launches cash incentives to boost birth rate

  The Russian government has launched a new set of initiatives designed to boost the country’s birth rate, offering cash rewards and mortgage subsidies to poor families in a bid to

  • Posted March 15, 2018
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  Russian alcohol restrictions cut crime by 20%, study finds

  Russian anti-alcohol policies have produced a significant decline in juvenile and adult crimes, according to new report. The study, carried out by Russian university the Higher School of Economics (HSE),

  • Posted February 21, 2018
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  New Russian law permits remote medical consultations and patient database

  Russian state healthcare providers will soon be able to offer remote consultations and prescriptions, under new legislation which also establishes a new nationwide patient records database. The legislation, which comes

  • Posted August 25, 2017
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  Russian scheme to raise the country’s fertility rate flawed, report finds

  Russia’s use of direct payments to families in a bid to raise the country’s fertility rate appears to have produced marginal results, according to a new report from the National

  • Posted September 28, 2016
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  Russian pension ages to rise by 5-8 years

  Russian civil servants are to see their retirement age rise by five years for men and eight years for women, as officials and elected representatives are put in the lead

  • Posted June 14, 2016
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  Russian pay plan defeated by inflation

  A six-year plan by the Russian government to raise the incomes of public sector workers is being badly undermined by rising inflation, according to a leaked report by Russia’s National

  • Posted May 19, 2016
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  Russian employment support programme falls flat

  A 3.9bn ruble (USD$60m) anti-unemployment scheme run by Russia’s 18 regional governments has failed to generate significant results, the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation has found. The spending, overseen

  • Posted April 26, 2016
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  Russia to create single social security management system

  The Russian Federation has announced its intention to create a single data management system bringing together all of its social security spending, with the aim of improving efficiency and combating

  • Posted March 15, 2016
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