Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vladimir V. Vagin Author-Email: vagin@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Title: Participatory Budgeting in Russia: Primary Features and Effects Abstract: The article summarizes the presentations made by participants of the first All-Russian Conference on Participatory Budgeting, which took place in the Financial Research Institute on 21–22 October 2015. The most of the presentations contained the characteristics of the best practices and the particularities of the implementation of participatory budgeting, particularly at the first stage of its development in the Russian Federation. Classification-JEL: Keywords: participatory budgeting, participatory procedures, initiative budgeting, local initiatives support program, People’s budget Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 120-122 Issue: 5 Year: 2015 Month: October File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2015/5/stastyi/11.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:150511:p:120-122