International Cooperation

The interstate association BRICS (acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) was initiated in 2006. It turned out to be one of the most important geopolitical events at the dawn of the new century. In a short time, the association has become a significant factor in the global policy.

The interaction of Rosstat with the statistical offices of BRICS countries is carried out mainly in the format of expert meetings for preparation of Joint Statistical Publication and a Meeting of Heads of National Statistical Offices.

The publication is prepared annually, starting 2010, and presented at the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the BRICS countries.

The publication contains general information about countries, as well as detailed data on changes in the most important macroeconomic and social indicators, such as indicators of economic activity of the population, GDP dynamics and structure, price indices and population living standards. In addition, there are data on the production of the most important industrial and agricultural products; development characteristics of various spheres of energy, transport, communications, finance, foreign economic relations of countries, as well as data on ecology.

The catalogue of BRICS JSPs is available here.

At present the CIS unites the following countries: the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Turkmenistan (associate member), the Republic of Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was established in December 1991. In the adopted Declaration the participants of the Commonwealth proclaimed their interaction on the basis of sovereign equality. In September 1993 the Heads of the CIS States signed an Agreement on the creation of Economic Union to form common economic space grounded on free movement of goods, services, labour force, capital; to elaborate coordinated monetary, tax, price, customs, external economic policy; to bring together methods of regulating economic activity and create favorable conditions for the development of direct production relations.

The organizer and coordinator of the common information space of the Commonwealth of Independent States is the Council of Heads of Statistical Services of the CIS, the working body of which is the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee, established in 1991 by decision of the CIS heads of government. A meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the CIS Member States, as well as the Council of Heads of Statistical Services, is held annually.

The CIS Statistical Committee performs the functions of statistical coordination activities of the Commonwealth countries as official distributor of statistical information on the socio-economic situation of the countries of the Commonwealth. The CIS Statistical Committee forms a database of CIS statistics, produces statistical compilations and up-to-date information based on data provided by national statistical services and other producers of official statistical data.

Rosstat provides the CIS Statistical Committee with official statistics in accordance with the List of Indicators for Interstate Exchange of Statistical Information, works to ensure the participation of the Russian Federation in international comparisons of GDP in the CIS region, updates the Russian section of the CIS Statistical Committee's Database of Economic and Social Statistics for forecasts.

Rosstat provides comprehensive support to the CIS countries, as well as neighboring countries, in the development of institutions of official statistics and harmonization of statistical methodology. It takes part in a number of international projects of these countries through UNFPA and UN divisions, as well as in projects of the CIS Statistical Committee and the Eurasian Economic Commission.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is an international organization in charge of regional economic integration. It is an international legal entity and is established by the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union.

The Eurasian Economic Union consists of the following member-states: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation.

The Union was established to comprehensively upgrade, raise the competitiveness of and cooperation between the national economies, and to promote sustainable development in order to raise the living standards of the Member States.

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is a permanent regulatory body of the EAEU. The commission began functioning in February 2012.

Rosstat carries out its interaction with the EEC through the Statistics Department of the EEC under the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. Representatives of the Federal State Statistics Service take part in the Advisory Committee on Statistics. It was established in August 2012 under the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission with the aim of developing proposals for decision-making by the EEC in the field of statistics. Rosstat specialists are involved in the work of the Committee and subcommittees, as well as in expert and working groups of EEC.

Rosstat provides the Eurasian Economic Commission with official statistical information in accordance with the approved formats, takes an active part in the development of a methodology for compiling statistical indicators and common statistical classifications and standards for the EAEU member states.

The Union State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus is a phased organized single political, economic, military, customs, currency, legal, humanitarian and cultural space.

The Executive Committee of the Union State was formed in accordance with the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State, which was signed on December 1999 by the Presidents of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus and Resolution of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of June 2000.

The Supreme State Council was formed and is functioning in accordance with the Treaty on the Creation of the Union State. The executive body of the Union State is the Council of Ministers which forms the Standing Committee of the Union State - the working body of the Supreme State Council and the Council of Ministers of the Union State.

Rosstat cooperates with the Executive Committee of the Union State and takes part in the working process and release of publications characterizing the socio-economic integration of Russia and Belarus.

In 1996, the Statistical Council of the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the Federal State Statistics Service was formed. Its meetings are held biennally, alternately in Belarus and Russia. The meetings of the Statistical Council discuss the formation of a unified system of statistical indicators, the development of information technologies, harmonization of national statistical classifications, approve the Plan of Joint Activities of Belstat and Rosstat to ensure comparability in the field of statistical methodology and official statistical data.