The budget deficit of the Russian Federation has amounted to more than half of the revenue since the beginning of the year.

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14:33; 11 March 2025 year
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The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has published a preliminary assessment of the federal budget execution for January-February 2025. 

Thus, revenues amounted to 5,344 billion rubles, while the bulk (3,784 billion rubles or 71%) was generated by non-oil and gas revenues, and oil and gas revenues brought 1,560 billion rubles (29% of the total).

At the same time, federal budget expenditures turned out to be significantly higher and reached 8,045 billion rubles, which was 50.5% higher than the amount of revenue received.

As a result, in January-February 2025, a budget deficit of 2,701 billion rubles was formed, accounting for more than half of total revenues.