"Celebration of the first surplus." Will he be the last?
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Vladimir Putin, 2018 In June, for the first time since the beginning of the year, the Russian Ministry of Finance executed the federal budget with a surplus, which amounted to 280 billion rubles. Thus, the deficit based on the results of the first 6 months dropped below 6 trillion rubles, but remained more than 2 trillion higher than in the first half of 2025, and almost 2 trillion higher than budgeted for the whole year.