The Russian budget deficit for January-April 2023 amounted to 3.4 trillion rubles. In this respect says In a message on the website of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.
“According to preliminary estimates, the volume of federal budget revenues in the period from January to April 2023 amounted to 7.782 billion rubles, which is 22% lower than the volume of revenues for the same period of 2022. At the same time, there is a steady positive trend in terms of receiving significant non-oil and gas revenues from both the federal budget and the budget system as a whole.”
Earlier it was reported that the Russian budget for May 2023 will be less than 8.1 billion rubles. Oil and gas revenues. In April, the Ministry of Finance was preparing to receive less than 113.6 billion rubles, but as a result, another 32.4 billion rubles were received. little. In March, the actual loss in budget revenues amounted to 93.1 billion rubles.
The publication noted that the department will send a total of 40.4 billion rubles for the sale of foreign currency. These operations will take place from 10 May 2023 to 6 June 2023.