According to an FCS Russia press release, the service held its final 2025 board meeting in Fili on 26 December to set priorities for 2026.
Head Valery Pikalev said the first stage of the customs development strategy to 2030 is complete and mission goals were updated. Ensuring full customs payments to the federal budget remains central: the plan is 97% fulfilled (RUB 5.787 trillion) despite lower import volumes and exchange rates.
Work continues on the presidential instruction to cut truck inspection time at border crossings to ten minutes, including a prospective checkpoint model with the Ministry of Transport and a pilot at Tagirkent-Kazmalyar. The “two agencies at the border” approach operates at 53 crossings and saves an average of 15 minutes per state control, the service estimates.
Plans for 2026 include declaration optimisation, authorised economic operator development, IT modernisation through a new technology centre and regional staffing reforms. Mobile groups detained more than 9,000 vehicles carrying 136,000 tonnes of goods in breach of rules in 2025.
