The Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) and Statistics Department (STA) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Moscow during the period October 15-30, 2013 to conduct a pilot Fiscal Transparency Evaluation (FTE). The objective of the mission was to evaluate Russia’s fiscal reporting, fiscal forecasting and budgeting, and fiscal risk management practices against the standards set by the revised draft of the IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code (FTC). […]