In the period under review, a large number of regulatory documents aimed at coping with crisis phenomena in the economy were released. The main guidelines for the RF Government's activities in the period under review, a large number of regulatory documents aimed at coping with crisis phenomena...

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...

Russia's tax and fiscal policy during the period under consideration was extremely contradictory. On the one hand, the shortage of budget revenues resulting from the stagnant state of the Russian economy compelled the authorities to make an emphasis on forceful methods in their fight against tax...

In August and September 2013, work continued on the Draft Federal Budget for 2014. As the RF Ministry of Finance had managed to ensure the timely preparation of alterations to tax legislation whereby the rates of export customs duties on hydrocarbons are to be reduced, and the rates of Mineral...

In the financial sector, the documents published in the Russian Federation in January–February 2016 point to the fact that despite a crisis situation financial experts keep working consistently on development and introduction of documents regulating relations in market conditions....

In the period under review (October-November 2015), the main line of activity in the field of economy was consideration of the 2016 draft budget at committees and commissions of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. As was expected, no substantial amendments as regards cuts in...

The period under review is characterized by decisions aimed at preparation of the 2016 draft budget. It is expected to stop formation of the budget for the period of 3 years and limit it to one year only; the deficit of the federal budget is determined by the President of the Russian Federation...

In the period under review, a struggle for the budget funds of the next fiscal year took place. On April 30, 2013, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation submitted for consideration by the Government of the Russian Federation the draft Main Guidelines of the Tax Policy in 2014 and the...

In the period under consideration, as a result of restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from those countries that had introduced sanctions against the Russian Federation or those that have joined the anti-Russian economic policy, the domestic market was being artificially limited. This...