Petroleum complex is Russia's basic economic sector which is playing a leading role in providing the state budget revenues. This paper is dedicated to the main issues of the government petroleum tax policy in Russia. The author analyses the outcome of the implemented petroleum tax reform and...

Oil and gas sector remains the backbone of the Russian economy and produces the lion's share of the state budget revenues and of the trade balance. Acute oil price fluctuations which took place on the free market, reduction in demand for gas, as well as objective fall in the oil and gas...

This article deals with a wide choice of issues related to macroeconomic production. Characteristic feature of 2006-2007 was economic growth acceleration rates along with positive effect of foreign economic situation factors and internal economic activity. Increase in business activity was based...

The oil-and-gas sector has continued being the cornerstone to Russia's economy and as such it plays a pivotal role in forming the state budget revenue and the nation's balance of trade. In 2010, it was the situation in the global oil market, the one in the European gas market, and an objective...

In 2015, the oil sector was subject to the so called “tax maneuver”, a system of measures aimed at significant reduction of economic component of the export duties and increasing the base rate of the mineral extraction tax. Tax maneuver will result in a more efficient structure of the tax...

The oil and gas sector is among principal sectors of the Russian economy and is the driving force in shaping the state budget revenues and the trade balance. In 2016, Russia's crude oil production hit an all-time peak since 1990, and crude oil exports were close to an all-time high. Under the...

The oil and gas sector is among the basic ones of the Russian economy and is playing an important role in the income generation for the state budget and Russia's trade balance. Implementation of the OPE, Russia and a number of other countries agreement on the production cut with a simultaneous...

Oil and gas industry remains the basic sector of Russian economy playing the key role in shaping revenues of the state budget and the country's trade balance. In 2014 the national crude oil output reached its maximum over the period since 1990. In the second half of the year the sector's...

In 2013, oil production in Russia reached its highest level since 1990 while exports of crude oil and refined products reached its highest-ever level in response to high prices of crude oil in global markets. However, a trend towards slower growth rates and worsening of oil and gas production...

In 2014, Russia continues to display upward trends in the oil extraction sector and petroleum product exports. In recent months, world prices of oil have been on the decline. Over the period of August-September 2014, the USA, the European Union and some other countries introduced economic...