Social expenditures remain top priority.
Russia has avoided the shock of the crisis, Vladimir Putin said at a Government meeting.
The Prime Minister highlighted the transparency and publicity of measures to ease the impact of the global crisis on the national economy.
"We have promised not to recur to shock therapy, whatever hardships we might be facing. We will act in the same vein later," he said.
Economy-related ministers refuted rumours that this year's budget is to be cut drastically.
"The Government has not even discussed budget expenditure reduction," Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina reassured. She said budget corrections implied streamlining rather than cuts.
Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich also said the Kremlin did not mean budget cuts, though structural changes might be made. He acknowledged that certain budget expenditures might be reduced while others would increase.
Whatever changes might await the budget, top leaders say social expenditures will retain their priority status.
"What the budget has earmarked will stay inviolable. Furthermore, we will go on tackling the key social problems of health services, pensions and housing," Mr Putin said, adding that the Government would pay special attention to help the unemployed.
President Dmitry Medvedev said at a Kremlin meeting which budget expenditures would be amended. Programmes promising great effect within a year-"mainly infrastructural, construction and housing programmes"-would replace ineffective and non-urgent expenditures, he specified.
The President called to halt price rises and reminded that Russia had put off something for a rainy day-five trillion roubles in the Reserve Fund plus three trillion in the National Welfare Fund.
"We might be able to do without cutting the year's budget expenditures and avoid excessive borrowing on heavy interest," Mr Medvedev remarked, and stressed that the stability of the pension system was the primary goal of the National Welfare Fund.
National issue
Igor Leonidov