Price growth of gasoline on Russian domestic market in the wake of declining world crude oil prices is due to the ruble's devaluation and excise rate growth. In Russia, the share of indirect gasoline taxes has gone up from 30–40% to 35–45% over last two years. Regarding the share of taxes in...

The oil and gas sector is playing an important role in the income generation for the state budget and Russia's trade balance. In 2017, the volumes of crude oil production somewhat fell owing to Russia's commitments to curb production as a result of the oil output cut agreement between some OPEC...

Amid raising global oil prices, crude oil production in Russia in 2018 hit an all-time high for the post-Soviet period. Under the first stage of tax maneuver in force in the oil industry, production and export of fuel oil moved down resulting in contraction of oil refining volumes but refining...

Существующий в Российской Федерации механизм изъятия ресурсной ренты от продажи общенациональных ресурсов является путем покрытия неэффективности главным...

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...

The world market in 2012 was characterized by the persistence of high global oil and natural gas prices. The average price of Russian Urals crude oil on the European market, according to preliminary estimates, amounted to $ 110.3 per barrel, and that of Russian natural gas – to $ 418,2 per...

Since the beginning of 2012, the situation in the oil and gas sector has been characterized by the persistence of high global oil and natural gas prices. According to preliminary estimates, the average price of Brent crude oil in January‐September 2012 amounted to $ 112.4 per barrel, which...