Treasury: Russia’s Jan–Feb consol budget surplus at 22.9 bln rbl

MOSCOW, Apr 7 (PRIME) -- Russia’s consolidated budget had a 22.86 billion ruble surplus in January-February after an 83.95 billion ruble deficit in the same period of 2016, as seen by PRIME in the Federal Treasury’s materials on Friday.

In March, the Finance Ministry said that Russia’s consolidated budget had a 58 billion rubles deficit in January–February. According to the Treasury’s updated information, the budget revenues amounted to 3.951 trillion rubles in the period and spending reached 3.928 trillion rubles.

In 2016, consolidated budget had a 3.142 trillion ruble deficit.

(56.4369 rubles – U.S. $1)

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