‘To 2020 the inflation will decrease by...’ ‘Next year Federal budget revenues will stand at...’ ‘Today the volume of sales at The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange has increased by...’ Where do specialists get this information and where can you look at statistics they use?

www.gks.ru

The site of Rosstat (former Federal State Statistics Service). This is the main statistics service of the Russian Federation. It accounts and publishes information about core social-political rates and indexes, such as GDP, consumer price index, producer price index, indexes of any kind economic production and separate indexes of economic performance. The main publication of Rosstat is a statistical yearbook that contains full information about social-political rates and indexes in Russia for the previous year. Monthly data about short-term rates are published as well as Information and report about the social-economic state in Russia. There are also statistics digests, concerning separate spheres, for example, ‘Industry in Russia’, ‘Russian regions’, ‘Russian finances’, ‘Demographic yearbook of Russia’, ect.

www.cbr.ru

The site of the Central Bank of The Russian Federation. Information about situation on financial markets, condition of bank system and characteristics of monetary policy is published here every day. This is not only a currency rate, settled by the Bank (for some currencies every day, every month for the others), but also provided by credit organizations information about volumes of credit and raised deposits, daily data about trading at different markets, interest rates, data about volume of money supply and monetary base and many other things.

www.minfin.ru

This is the site of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Current information about administration of the federal budget of the Russian Federation for income and expense (dividing interest and non-interest rates) is published in ministry’s press-releases every month. Also the estimation of GDP produced in a month is mentioned in press-releases. This is the latest update about the gross national product (GDP) that one can find in open access from other sources.

www.roskazna.ru

The site of the Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation. Here you can find monthly information about income and expense of the consolidated federal budget and budgets of subjects of the Federation. Information about incomes is more detailed than in press-releases of the Ministry of Finance and it is represented in a different way: it is published according to every article of tax and non-tax income. On the site there is also information about an amount of oil-and-gas income of the federal budget, the state of Reserve Fund and Fund of future generations.

www.economy.gov.ru

The site of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Here you can find publications of short-, mid- and long-term prognoses of social-economic situation of Russia. Prognoses are usually made for several development scenarios. Key prognosis rates (GDP, sales turnover, investment, export, import, salary, ect.) are published as well as corresponding values of exogenous variables (usually these are price for oil, volume of its production, exchange-value of rouble against the US dollar or The us dollar against Euro, volume of inflation, budget expenses, ect.), put in different development scenarios.

www.customs.ru

Customs statistics of the Russian Federation. Partly it intercrosses with data provided by the Central Bank in the ‘Statistics of external trade’ section. However here the information appears quicker and also this information about product structure of import and export is more detailed.

www.rts.ru

Information about trading at RTS stock exchange. Here you can find information about general volume of closed deals, quotations for all kinds of currencies, trading results. And also information about functioning of the stock itself in a form of annual financial accountability, fulfilled according to international standards.

www.micex.ru

Information about trading at Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange. Here are main indexes and indicators of the stock market are published. There are also Stock market quotes and trading in real time. Data about the situation at stock market, exchange market and money market, government bond market, futures and options market and product market.