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53124
54333
58269
Culture, art and cinematography
3062
2880
3893
4321
4479
4724
6184
6219
7589
7724
7965
Mass media
2087
1997
4763
5071
4371
5279
6028
6050
6500
6819
5374
Health care and physical education
10239
10138
13306
14043
15577
16194
18707
19264
21399
21452
23298
Social policy
41871
49193
52410
56566
75605
78762
247588
295508
81995
75543
79739
Government debt service
166844
162862
183086
214520
168209
162100
176578
139969
151007
120196
142256
State reserves reimbursement
97
93
140
138
304
209
321
412
11403
11328
10027
Table 15 cont’d
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
Financial support to budgets at other levels | 43444 | 62742 | 57528 | 84200 | 130914 | 161331 | 149530 | 193958 | 387124 | 433318 | 402655 |
Disposition and destruction of weapons, including implementation of international agreements | 1736 | 3598 | 1722 | 2900 | 4234 | 4598 | 6235 | 6300 | 5855 | 5855 | 5127 |
Economy preparedness activity | 450 | 597 | 416 | 533 | 351 | 660 | 305 | 387 | 272 | 270 | 544 |
Research and use of space | 2976 | 3334 | 2853 | 3591 | 3220 | 4889 | 5919 | 5936 | 4163 | 4979 | 5937 |
Military reform | 0 | 0 | 2972 | 3882 | 10083 | 8765 | 7945 | 8805 | 3584 | ||
Other expenditures | -9532 | -6343 | 4088 | 5757 | -2748 | 4307 | -1692 | 7464 | -3869 | 5042 | -2137 |
Road network | 0 | 0 | 33227 | 23611 | 43049 | 24345 | 39146 | ||||
Targeted budget funds | 44038 | 56209 | 50404 | 81264 | 9746 | 10190 | 8468 | 9187 | 7654 | 7808 | 6956 |
TOTAL EXPENDITURES | 575047 | 666930 | 711375 | 856226 | 837195 | 929934 | 1140805 | 1251956 | 1276377 | 1281425 | 1315577 |
Source: the RF Ministry of Finance, Russian State Statistics Committee (Goskomstat), estimates of the Institute for Economy in Transition (IET).
In 2004, federal budget expenditures is scheduled at 17,38% of GDP with GDP being estimated 15300 bln rubles, of which 438,2 bln rubles ( 16,48% of total expenditures ) is transferred to the RF Pension Fund to finance basic occupational pensions, 287,5 bln rubles of interest expenditures and 1933,7 bln rubles of non-interest expenditures ( 10,81% and 72,71% correspondingly ).
Interest expenditures of the budget 2004 will be reduced almost by three fourths percentage points of GDP or more than by 5% in comparable prices against the budget of the previous year.
Some changes have been made to the composition of non-interest expenditures by including additional items, namely maintenance costs of extradepartmental security guard service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, as well as costs of services previously rendered by the State Dispatch Service of Russia, 38,5 bln rubles and 280 ml rubles correspondingly. However, non-tax revenues of the federal budget draft 2004 is scheduled to increase by the same amounts.
Among the top-priority expenditure items are judicial reform, law enforcement and national security, education, healthcare and research and development. Unlike the approved standard of expenditures in 2003, allocations to these items of functional expenditure structure of the federal budget 2004аwill be growing: Judicial power item by 1,31 (and by 1,19аin comparable prices), National defense by 1,19 (by 1,08аin comparable prices), Law enforcement and national security by 1,26 (by 1,15), Basic research and development and technology promotion by 1,15 (by 1,04), Education by 1,21 (by 1,10), Health care and physical education by 1,20 (by 1,09), and Culture, art and cinematography by 1,15 (by 1,04).
Table 16
Federal Budget Expenditures in 2003 and 2004 in Comparable>
Legislative budget in 2003 in % of GDP in comparable> | Legislative budget of 2004 in % of GDP | Legislative budget | |
State administration and local self-government | 0,51 | 0,50 | 105,21 |
Judical power | 0,20 | 0,22 Pages: | 1 | ... | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ... | 13 |![]() |