
9.9 billion rubles in 2027 will be allocated to pay medical workers in border areas.
The budget of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund provides for more than 210 billion rubles for special social payments to medical workers, said the head of the fund, Ilya Balanin.
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The FFOMS budget is formed to provide compulsory health insurance in the Russian Federation.
The budget of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS) provides for more than 210 billion rubles for special social payments to health workers, said the head of the fund, Ilya Balanin.
“A normalized safety stock has also been formed in the budget. Next year it is envisaged in the amount of 281 billion rubles. These funds are supposed to be spent primarily on a special social payment to medical workers - 210 billion rubles,” Balanin said at a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation plans to give banks the powers of tax agents for personal income tax in relation to interest on deposits from 2027. Now banks only transmit data to the tax office, which itself calculates the tax.

Trade turnover between Russia and Belarus in January-July of this year increased by 14% in annual terms and reached $32.8 billion.

Russian manufacturers of small and medium-sized businesses supported the initiative of the Ministry of Finance to establish a 22 percent VAT on the online purchase of foreign goods through marketplaces to create fair competition.

Chemical fibers, railway locomotives and rolling stock, as well as household appliances became the main drivers of growth in Russian exports to Belarus in the first seven months.

At its October meeting, the Central Bank of Russia will take into account the entire set of data when deciding on the key rate. As the regulator’s deputy chairman, Alexey Zabotkin, said, the announced budget parameters are unlikely to have a significant impact on the forecast.

The average maximum rate on deposits of the ten largest banks in Russia increased in the third ten days of September by almost 0.05 percentage points and amounted to 13.05% per annum, according to materials from the Bank of Russia.