IMF advises Russia to save on the elderly and children, and to join the WTO

Implementation of the growth potential of the Russian economy will require a tightening of monetary and fiscal policy, said in a statement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Russia, the press service the IMF on Tuesday. "In the future, realizing the potential growth of the Russian economy will require a decisive rejection of the old policy. Although considerable reserves of Russia continues to create some cushion, if you can not tighten fiscal and monetary policies and to give new impetus to structural reforms, the result will be the lowest growth in the medium period ",