The year 2017 saw some notable changes in the main parameters of the execution of the general government budget of the Russian Federation: the budgetary system's revenue gained nearly 1 percentage point of GDP, while expenditure, on the contrary, lost 1.2 percentage points of GDP. Thus, the...

The draft law “On the Federal Budget in 2019 and the 2020-2021 Planned Period” suggests a budget maneuver in favor of productive expenditures. The federal budget is to become the main source of growth of the Russian economy in the next three years. There are problems related to the budget...

At the period-end of January-March 2021, the federal budget surplus was less than in the pre-crisis Q1 2020. After 2020, the budget system recorded an increase in public debt servicing costs driven by a large-scale borrowing and the accumulation of losses by enterprises, which carry forward will...

According to the preliminary data released by the Finance Ministry of Russia, the federal budget revenues constituted Rb18.7 trillion against the projected Rb20.6 trillion for 2020, and expenditures – Rb22.8 trillion against planned Rb19.7 trillion. Such difference in the state budget...

In 2017, dynamics of the federal budget's main parameters are characterized by growth of 0.7 p.p. of GDP in the revenues and a reduction of 1.3 p.p. of GDP in the expenditures as compared to the previous year. This permitted to cut the budget deficit to 1.4% of GDP. The existing global prices of...

In the first three months of 2022, federal budget revenues increased by 4.2 p.p. of GDP compared to the same period of the previous year due to oil and gas revenues, reaching 31.2% of the projected annual volume. A moderate increase in federal budget expenditures by 1.5 p.p. of GDP in the first...

The federal budget for 9 months of 2022 was executed with a surplus of Rb 54.7 bn. The dynamics of revenues is slowing down, with the growth of rental revenues by 1.4 p.p. against the same period of the previous year and does not compensate for the fall of non-oil and gas revenues by 2.0 p.p. of...

The dynamics of the main parameters of the federal budget in January-September 2019 compared to the same period of the previous year showed that: • there was a stabilization of revenues at the level of 18.8 p.p. of GDP; having said that, the reduction in the level of oil and gas revenues was...

At nine months-end 2020, the federal budget revenues contracted by Rb1,818.6 bn and expenditures went up by Rb3,040.9 bn against the same period of the previous year; the budget has been executed with a deficit to the tune of Rb1,773.3 bn. Contraction of revenues and ramping up of expenditures...

The budget system revenues of the Russian Federation in 2020 shrank by Rb3.4 trillion in real terms compared to the previous year, or by 8.6% at constant prices (Table 6) on the back of reduced oil and gas revenues. For this reason, the proportion of oil and gas revenues in the total budget...