The next budget cycle begins in Russia “in a very challenging environment,” said the members of his cabinet Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Opening the meeting of the government commission on budget projections, he recalled the low oil prices and that the EU authorities imposed recently extended earlier Russian sanctions.
According to RBC , the Prime Minister urged to prepare a budget, which will provide not only the “macroeconomic stability”, but also the normal operation of the social sphere.
“It is necessary to take into account that budget resources are not unlimited. We are quite a long time, in all probability, have to work under tight budget constraints,” – said Medvedev.
Prime believes that the most important issue in this situation is becoming social obligations of the state: “No matter how intensified external pressure, we will continue to invest in those programs that are aimed at improving the quality of life, because we have them pretty seriously promoted in recent years, they have become larger. We will improve social benefits “, – assured Medvedev.
At the same time Prime Minister noted that it is possible to increase revenue now “very few” have to spend money “as efficiently as possible,” but because the funding of the previously planned gosproektov be “installments”. According to the Prime Minister, the Finance Ministry has other “tough enough” proposals for cost optimization.
Speaking June 19 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin said : “We are confident we pass through a period of difficulties”, that is, contrary to the predictions of pessimists, the country managed to avoid a deep crisis in the economy and government – to keep control of inflation and to prevent rising unemployment.
different opinion of ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who said that Russia is in a full-fledged crisis: the second and third quarters of economic decline will continue, but will slow down in the fourth. Real wages of Russians dropped by 10%, while real incomes – by 4%, he recalled.
Recall that the government is continuing public debate on the plans Ministry of Finance to reduce indexing of pension payments for the next three years in order to save more than 2.5 trillion rubles. In 2016, it proposed to reduce the level of indexation to 7% planned in the current three-year budget, to 5.5%. In 2017 – cut index of 4.5% (6.3%) and 2018 – 4% (from 5.1%).
The idea of non-indexation of pensions to inflation belongs to the Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. The Ministry of Finance in May offers hold the adjustment, and each time he has been denied – the social block government stands firmly against it.
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