STATEMENT BY THE GAIDAR INSTITUTE PRESS SERVICE

Recently, a number of Internet publications and telegraph channels (The Moscow Times, BRIEF, Charter'97) have published materials on the execution of the Russian federal budget, mentioning the research and expert estimates of the Gaidar Institute employees.

Please note that these materials do not reflect either factual information or assessments of the studies published by the Gaidar Institute or expert comments by its employees. In this regard, requests have been sent to the aforementioned editions asking to amend the text of publications respectively or to refute references to the Institute.

We therefore urge our readers to seek the opinions of the Gaidar Institute and its employees directly on our website at www.iep.ru. One can also read our materials and comments in the social media: Yandex-Zen, VK.com, Odnoklassniki, Youtube.