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...