In the second quarter of 2026, Russia saw a rise in corporate… (банкротство · процедура · тыс)
In the second quarter of 2026, Russia saw a rise in corporate bankruptcy initiations, with the Federal Tax Service (FTS) responsible for 23% of cases, while the rate of personal bankruptcies among citizens slowed down despite increased use of out-of-court procedures. The number of court-ordered personal bankruptcies grew slightly, but the share of rejections for debt discharge rose significantly.
Consensus
- In the second quarter of 2026, more than 2,000 corporate bankruptcy proceedings were initiated in Russia.
- The Federal Tax Service (FTS) was responsible for 23% of corporate bankruptcy initiations in the second quarter of 2026.
- The number of applications filed by the FTS to initiate bankruptcy procedures increased more than threefold over one year, from about 2,000 to nearly 7,000.
- In the first half of 2026, court-ordered personal bankruptcies for individuals and individual entrepreneurs totaled 277,46 thousand.
- The number of out-of-court personal bankruptcy procedures in April–June 2026 was 17.9 thousand, with a year-on-year increase of 13.1%.
- In the first half of 2026, the number of approved debt restructuring plans increased by 2.4 times compared to the same period in 2025.
- The share of court rejections for debt discharge among individuals rose from 1.1% to 2.4% in January–June 2026 compared to the previous year.
Points of divergence
- The Federal Tax Service (FTS) has its own rehabilitation tools that allow debtor companies to recover, and over 58 billion rubles in debt was settled through conciliation procedures initiated by the FTS in the first half of 2026. — vesti
- The number of court rejections for debt discharge among individuals increased 2.9 times in January–June 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, and this is attributed by Fedsures' head Alexey Yukhin to a trend of stricter judicial approaches toward dishonest debtors. — interfax
Coverage (4 sources)
- The Federal Tax Service initiated nearly every fourth company bankruptcy in Russia — Вести
- Fewer individual bankruptcies in Russia — Вести
- Rate of growth in the number of individual bankruptcies is slowing down, while the number of refusals to discharge debts is increasing — Интерфакс
- Russian courts declared 3,550 companies bankrupt in the first half of the year — Интерфакс