Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alexander N. Deryugin Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Regional Budgets in January-September 2021: Public Budget Loans Replace Commercial Loans Title: Региональные бюджеты в январе-сентябре 2021 г.: коммерческие кредиты замещаются бюджетными Abstract: Based on results for Q3 2021, tax and non-tax revenues of consolidated budgets of RF constituent entities increased markedly as compared with the same period of 2019. In 2021, the pattern of regional consolidated budgets’ expenditures does not differ very much from the pre-pandemic one, which is evidence of long-term changes in RF regions’ budget policy. Fast growth in regions’ own tax and non-tax revenues, as well as a large-scale replacement of commercial loans with public budget loans facilitated a reduction in regions’ debt burden and related expenditures. Keywords: regions’ budgets, revenues of regional budgets, expenditures of regional budgets, intergovernmental fiscal transfers, regional debt Classification-JEL: H61, H62, H63, H71, H72, H74, H77 Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2022 Issue: 1 Month: January Pages: 64-67 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2212.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2212