Under the government's forecasts, two thirds of the economic growth next year will be ensured by internal factors, in comparison with one third in the previous years.
Among the internal factors Alexander Zhukov named first of all the growth in investments and in the incomes of the population.
According to him, the investments next year, as the government forecasts, will go up by 9.8% over this year's level, that is, they will grow quicker than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
An increase in the real incomes of the population has been forecast at the level of 9%, Alexander Zhukov said.
The growth in the GDP, built into the Budjet-2005, will total 6.3%, and the inflation will lower to 8% next year, the Vice Premier said.
These plans "are based on a rather favourable forecast for the Urals oil prices which will stand approximately at 28 dollars per barrel," he noted.
In the first eight months of this year, the investments into the fixed capital went up by more than 12% over the similar period last year, and the real incomes of the population grew up by more than 9%.
The enterprises' profits in January-July 2004 increased by 45% in comparison with the last year's indices.
The GDP's growth in the first 8 months of the current year totaled 7.3 % , the Deputy Prime Minister said.
Thus, according to his estimates, the current state of the Russian economy shows stable and positive tendencies.
Incidentally, the high economic growth is based not only on a favourable foreign economic situation, but it is also "propped by internal factors," he underscored.
According to the Vice Premier, the industries oriented on the internal demand, in the first place metal processing, machine-building, communication and civil engineering industries, rather than raw material industries, were growing at a higher speed in the first eight months of this year.
Alexander Zhukov emphasised that in 2005 the tariffs for gas will grow up not more than by 23%, for electricity - by 9.5%, for railway shipments - by 8.5 %.
He also said that the growth in the real effective rouble rate will not top the growth in the productivity of labour and will amount to not more than 3%-4%.
The Vice Premier said that in 2005 the tax burden on the Russian economy will continue to lower. It will slide down to 32.1% of the GDP, while in 2002 the figure was 36.5% of the GDP.
The Vice Premier pointed out that the lowing of the tax burden will take place mainly due to lowing the unified social tax.
Alexander Zhukov said that the expenditures on national defence, national security and law enforcement activity in 2005 will grow in real terms by 17.6% in comparison with the current year and will total nearly 5% of the GDP.
"This is a very serious growth in the expenditures on these spheres, provided for by the Budget-2005," he said.
Apart from that, Alexander Zhukov noted, that Budget-2005 will envisage expenditures on changing the servicemen's advantages into a rouble equivalent.
The Budget-2005 also envisages allocations for the fight against terrorism, for manning the armed forces on the enlistment basis, for the programme of ensuring housing to servicemen and for scraping ammunition and military equipment, the Vice Premier said.
