FEATURES OF RUSSIAN IMPORTS FROM TURKMENISTAN DURING THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS

Abstract

The article analysis the peculiarities of Russian imports from Turkmenistan during the years of the Ukrainian crisis, which began in 2014 and continues today. This crisis and its international consequences have a great impact on Russia's foreign trade policy and its trade turnover with various countries of the world. The identification of the peculiarities of Russia's imports from Turkmenistan is carried out on the basis of data from the Federal Customs Service of Russia, Rosstat and a number of scientific papers, with the help of which the dynamics of the following foreign trade indicators over all the years of the Ukrainian crisis is comprehensively and systematically investigated: the total volume of trade turnover between Russia and Turkmenistan and Russian imports from this country in value terms; the general structure of Russian imports and the specific weight (share) in it of the main commodity groups and positions, their сost values; the share of Turkmenistan in the total turnover and imports of the Russian Federation. For the purposes of the study, a comparative analysis of a number of the above indicators with the corresponding statistics of the previous period (2008–2013) was also carried out. The study showed the following: the dynamics of Russian-Turkmen trade turnover during the Ukrainian crisis was diverse; the share of trade with Turkmenistan in the total turnover of Russia, as well as the share of Turkmen supplies in the total volume of Russian imports did not change compared to the previous period; the basis of Russian imports from Turkmenistan were goods of five commodity groups; Russian imports themselves in the period under review as a whole and separately by the main commodity groups and positions showed diverse dynamics.