{"id":1197737,"date":"2025-08-07T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1197737"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:50:50","slug":"russia-s-budget-deficit-surges-to-nearly-5-trillion-rubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-s-budget-deficit-surges-to-nearly-5-trillion-rubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Budget Deficit Surges to Nearly 5 Trillion Rubles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Russia\u2019s federal budget deficit continues to grow rapidly<\/strong>, increasing by <strong>1.2 trillion rubles in July alone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of the first seven months of 2025, the deficit has reached <strong>4.9 trillion rubles<\/strong>, already <strong>exceeding the Finance Ministry\u2019s full-year target<\/strong> of 3.8 trillion rubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Budget Breakdown (July):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Revenue:<\/strong> 2.7 trillion rubles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Expenditures:<\/strong> 3.9 trillion rubles (up from 3.2 trillion in June)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the January\u2013July period:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Spending rose by 20.8%<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Revenue grew by only 2.8%<\/strong>, and when adjusted for inflation, <strong>real income actually declined<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A key reason behind the widening gap is the <strong>collapse in oil and gas revenues<\/strong>, which dropped by <strong>18.5% year-on-year<\/strong>, accelerating from 16.9% in the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to this sharp decline, <strong>the Russian government is preparing to revise the federal budget for the second time this year<\/strong>. Adjustments are expected in <strong>September<\/strong>, alongside the proposed three-year fiscal plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Experts predict that <strong>the deficit could grow further \u2014 up to 5 to 9 trillion rubles<\/strong> by year-end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As reported earlier, <strong>Ukraine\u2019s sanctions chief Vladyslav Vlasiuk<\/strong> said Russia\u2019s planned 2025 budget deficit was tripled in May \u2014 <strong>from 1.17 trillion to 3.8 trillion rubles<\/strong>, citing <strong>declining oil prices and sanctions<\/strong> as the main causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s federal budget deficit continues to grow rapidly, increasing by 1.2 trillion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1197739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1197737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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