Russian finance ministry starts preparing budget for 2017

MOSCOW, May 26 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Finance Ministry has started preparing the country’s budget for 2017, Minister Anton Siluanov said at a government meeting on Thursday.

“I would like to inform colleagues that we have already started preparing the budget for 2017. The first meeting of the budget commission, where the maximum size of budget allocations will be considered, will take place on June 27. That’s why we already have to prepare proposals for a draft budget for next years,” he said.

A deadline for submission of the 2017–2019 budget to the State Duma, the parliament’s lower house, has been recently delayed until November 1 from October 1 set previously.

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