Ranking of obstacles in growth of Iranian non-oil exports to Russia by using the Analytic Network Process

Boosting exports of local products to global markets is one of the current important economic issues in Iran. Despite Russia has been considered as a potential and emerging market for Iranian products, official data expresses the quite failure of Iran to achieve a favorable market share in this country. The main purpose of this paper is to exploring the main obstacles of developing Iranian exports to Russia and ranking them through the Analytical Network Process. The major results of this paper proved that banking facilitation, sanctions, business culture, governmental supports of non-oil exports and dissimilarities of export standards between Iran and Russia are the main obstacles in this matter.