摘要:At present, the financial crisis and its consequences are the most frequently discussed theme both in
this country and abroad. Before autumn 2008, Russia¡¯s authorities and population alike had been cherishing
hopes that the crisis would by-pass Russia, or at least that the impending reduction in the rate
of business activity and decline in the incomes of citizens would be limited to export-oriented industries.
However, the received statistics have indicated that Russia is just entering the crisis stage of the
cycle, and will ¡°hit the bottom¡± of it no earlier than by the middle of next year.
Over the first nine months of 2008, the share of the general government¡¯s revenues in GDP
amounted to about 39.6 % against 40.4 % in 2007, and its decline is still continuing. During the period
under consideration, the dynamic of revenue generation in the budgets of all levels was characterized
by an increase in the amplitude of fluctuations of monthly tax receipts15, which was clearly attenuating
in the process (see Fig. 1).