The Russian economy and financial market faced a wide range of challenges in 2022 amid unprecedented sanctions pressure. The anti-crisis measures promptly taken by the Bank of Russia and the Government of the Russian Federation quickly stabilised the situation. The approaches chosen to preserve the market principles and the openness of the Russian economy played the key role in this and thus ensured the flexibility and adaptability of the system in a changing environment. This made it possible to already move on to designing and addressing long-term objectives in the financial market and developing systemic solutions that would contribute to the development of the Russian economy in the new realities last year. The Russian Financial Market Development Programme for 2024–2026 (Programme 24–26) is the main medium-term document on the development of the domestic financial market. This document reveals the main goals, principles and areas of the financial market development policy, as well as the key objectives that the Bank of Russia will address collaboratively with the Government of the Russian Federation