Putin has promised to avoid economic catastrophe in Russia.

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In mid-January 2009, Putin has instructed relevant agencies to change the parameters of a three-year budget for 2009-2011, based on the new macroeconomic projections. The government believes that in 2009 oil will cost 41 dollars per barrel, not $ 95 as budgeted.
February 24, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that the revenue budget-2009 will drop by 42 percent compared with last year and will total 6.3 trillion rubles, and the cost should reach 9,3-9,5 trillion. Thus, the country expects a budget deficit of eight per cent of GDP, the decline of the GDP and industrial production, as well as rising inflation and unemployment.
Only the first one and a half months of 2009 inflation in Russia amounted to three percent. Assistant to the President Arkady Dvorkovich did not rule out that inflation is on the basis of 2009 was 15 per cent. "While the official forecast of 13-14 per cent, and this is forecast MEDT. But there are risks that may be higher," - he said. In 2008, inflation stood at 13,3 percent.
According to the Health Ministry on February 11 2009, the number of unemployed in Russia amounted to 1807 million. According to the Ministry of Economic Development, the total number of unemployed Russians in 2009 will be 5,5 million.