On December 15, the Federation Council set the date for the election of the Russian president – as expected, they will be held on March 18. Earlier on December 6, Vladimir Putin announced that he would run for the fourth presidential term. Some preliminary results of his third term, which started on May 7, 2012, are in the material of Kommersant.
From January 1, 2012 the population of Russia increased by 0.9% – to 144.4 million people (excluding the Crimea and Sevastopol). The birth rate decreased by 6.5%. Mortality fell by 7.4%
The unemployment rate in the country fell by 1.3 percentage points. – to 5.1% in October 2017. The average monthly salary increased by 69% – to 38.3 thousand rubles. for January-September of 2017. The average pension for the same period increased by 64.2%.
The US dollar against the ruble more than doubled, the euro almost doubled. The sharp weakening of the ruble occurred at the end of 2014 as a result of a fall in world oil prices and the imposition of economic sanctions against Russia.
Russia’s GDP in current prices at the end of 2016 amounted to 86.04 trillion rubles. against 59.7 trillion rubles. in 2011. Expenditures of the RF budget for the same period doubled, incomes – by 18.4%.
Expenditures of the federal budget on national defense, national security and law enforcement activity doubled – up to 5.67 trillion rubles. in 2016. In 2017, the costs for this item are planned at 4.78 trillion rubles. Expenditure on healthcare from 2011 to 2016 increased by 1.2%. Expenses for education – by 8.1%. In 2017, it is planned to reduce spending on medicine and education.
Assets of Russian banks in rubles have grown almost twice – from 41.6 trillion rubles. on January 1, 2012 to 82.7 trillion rubles. on November 1, 2017. The share of state-owned banks in assets for the same period exceeded 50%. The banks themselves were 185 less.
According to Bloomberg, from December 2011 to December 2015, the capitalization of the Russian stock market fell from $ 585 billion to $ 230 billion. As of December 2017, the capitalization is $ 530 billion.
The cost of a minimum set of food products in Russia increased 1.5 times – to 3720 rubles. in November 2017.
According to the analytical agency “Autostat”, the weighted average price of a new passenger car increased by 1.7 times and for January-September of 2017 amounted to 1.33 million rubles. Sales of cars were reduced almost twice.
Filling up the more expensive cars also became more expensive – the prices for gasoline AI-95 increased by 1.4 times. The average price for a liter of AI-95 is now 40.8 rubles.
The number of registered crimes in the country decreased by 10.2% – to 2.16 million in 2016. However, in Moscow, where the most crimes are committed, this indicator grew by 0.2% to 173.9 thousand.
According to the Federal State Statistics Service, in 2016 eight times more people emigrated from Russia than in 2011. At the same time, the number of immigrants arriving in the country increased more than 1.5 times.
