In December 2012, a number of amendments and alterations were introduced into tax and budget legislation, as well as into legislation regulating the sphere of mandatory payments and government off-budget funds. An analysis of the possible scenarios for further development of the taxation system...

In the period under review, a major international event was the Moscow meeting of G20 finance ministers and heads of central banks. In Russia, a few developments took place. On January 31, 2013, Premier Dmitri Medvedev approved the Main Guidelines for the RF Government’s Activities in the...

The law on the federal budget for 2013 and the planning period 2014-2015 was approved by the RF State Duma in the third reading on 23 November 2012. The domestic debt ceiling is set at the level of 10% GDP, the foreign debt ceiling – at about Rb 2.1 trillion. There figures are above the budget...

Over the period under consideration, Russia’s economic problems more than once became the focus of public discussion with the participation of the country’s leadership and eminent Russian and foreign experts – at the Gaidar Forum hosted by the Russian Presidential Academy of National...