Russia's Regional Budget Balance

Consolidated regional budget balance

Russia's regional budget balance indicator tracks the consolidated balance of every regional government budget in the country over a rolling 12-month period, in roubles, taken from the finance ministry's own monthly reporting on regional finances. Like the federal deficit, the figures are published cumulatively and de-cumulated here to remove the effect of Russia's back-loaded government spending calendar. The indicator is scored against two registered anchors: 100 marks the 2021 outcome, a consolidated surplus; 0 marks a consolidated deficit equal to roughly 1.1% of GDP. Regional budgets are described on this monitor as the federal budget's “second front”: regions depend heavily on federal transfers, so a widening regional deficit tends to end up back on the federal government's own doorstep. Source: Russia's Ministry of Finance, published monthly. For Aug 2026, the latest reading is −₽1.51 trn. Against the registered pre-war baseline of +₽0.66 trn, it scores 31/100 on this monitor's index, where 100 is the pre-war level and 0 is the registered trouble line.

Plain-language label: “Are the regions staying afloat?” — what it measures: the second front of the budget: regional deficits end up on the federal doorstep.

▸ Russia's regional budgets explained

“Russia Regional Budget Balance”: historical data against the registered trouble line

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Background reading

• Russia's regional budgets explained
• Russia's war economy explained

Latest developments

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