Rosstat: budget deficit in 2013 amounted to 850 billion rubles

In February, inflation accelerated growth rates and reached 0.7% compared to the January level of 0.6%. The fresh data of the Federal State Statistics Service, which Interfax transmitted, coincided with the expectations of the Ministry of Economic Development. At the end of February, the head of the department, Andrei Klepach, stated that inflation may meet 0.7%. Since the beginning of 2014, prices have risen by 1.3%, the materials of the department testify.

On Tuesday, Rosstat also published data on the execution of the budget over the past year. The deficit of the consolidated budget of Russia and the budgets of state extra -budgetary funds in 2013 amounted to 848.7 billion rubles against a surplus of 260.4 billion rubles in 2012.

The expenses of the consolidated budget of Russia (taking into account state extra -budgetary funds) last year exceeded income. So, 24 trillion 082.4 billion rubles were received in the budget (in 2012 - 23 trillion 435.1 billion rubles), and 24 trillion 931.1 billion rubles were used up (23 trillion 174.7 billion rubles).