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A growing part of spending is allocated in classified annexes of the budget laws. We compute the classified part of each section as the section total minus its published lines.

• Our data: Our computation from the open annexes of laws 419-FZ (as amended by 152-FZ and 414-FZ) and 426-FZ
• Research: Julian Cooper, SIPRI Insights 2026/01

Procurement by the Defence Ministry, FSB, FSO, Rosgvardiya and the Foreign Intelligence Service was removed from public view. Government Decree No. 301 of 6 March 2022 lets customers under sanctions withhold their purchases.

• Document: Government Decree No. 301 of 6 March 2022 (text not yet checked)
• Note: A project helper's check of legalacts.ru and media reports

Detailed customs statistics on foreign trade stopped being published.

• Note: Reports of Rosstat and Federal Customs Service notices (not yet checked against a document)

Minfin stopped publishing spending by section, by state programme and the financing of the deficit in its budget execution data. Financing has since returned; spending by section has not.

• Our data: Minfin's annual execution workbook: spending by section is given for 2011–2021; from 2022 the rows are empty
• Media: Novaya Gazeta Europe (the date it stopped), 14 Jun 2022

The Electronic Budget's daily cash execution data was put behind a login.

• Media: Novaya Gazeta Europe, 16 Nov 2022

An amendment to the law on official statistics lets agencies withhold statistics.

• Document: Federal Law No. 282-FZ on official statistics, Art. 5 (the amendment's text not yet checked)

Spending by section briefly reappeared on Minfin's website and was then removed.

• Media: The Moscow Times, citing Reuters, 22 Jun 2023

The annual laws on federal budget execution no longer show spending by section.

• Research: Julian Cooper (SIPRI), as summarised; not yet checked in his text

Rosstat cut the detail of its mortality data.

• Note: A project helper's check of Rosstat files (not yet checked)

The Bank of Russia suspended its daily statistics on the over-the-counter currency market.

• Media: Meduza

The public procurement open-data FTP server was closed.

• Media: Habr

Statistics on oil and gas production are suspended until 1 April 2027.

• Document: Government Order No. 693-r (text not yet checked)

Rosstat stopped its monthly population estimates. The last published population estimate is for 1 January 2025; the site shows it labelled “no longer published”.

• Our data: Rosstat's file with the estimate for 1 January 2025 is the latest; the archive has no file with an estimate for 1 January 2026
• Note: The last monthly births and deaths are for March 2025 (a project helper's check, not yet verified)

425 indicators in the EMISS state statistics system were overdue.

• Media: Esli byt tochnym (tochno.st), 6 Aug 2025

The Budget Code was amended: the Government may spend above the 2026 budget law without amending it and without disclosing the extra amounts; the limit on domestic debt growth is suspended.

• Document: Bill No. 1254383-8 (State Duma record; text not yet checked)
• Media: iStories, 10 Jun 2026

The Treasury's federal budget execution report (form 0503117) shows spending as a single line, without sections.

• Document: Federal Treasury, form 0503117 for 1 July and 1 September 2026 (opened by a project helper; not in our data yet)

Decree No. 686 approved a list of restricted-access information about the fuel and energy sector. We are checking which published oil and gas data it affects.

• Document: Presidential Decree No. 686 of 28 September 2026