On the weapons, citizens

167 billion rubles, which remained from the so -called presidential reserve formed from frozen pension savings of citizens, will be spent by the end of the year on repayment of loans of the defense industry. According to RBC, this was stated by the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov.

In total, it is planned to spend 800 billion rubles for the calculation of loans of defense enterprises before the New Year.

The total volume of frozen pension savings of citizens amounted to 342 billion rubles this year . More than half of this amount has already been spent. 150 billion went to support Vnesheconombank , and another 25 billion took the project to build new schools.

On Monday, Siluanov said that the share of closed expenditures in the budget according to the results of this year will be 22.3 percent - record importance in the entire post -Soviet history of Russia. According to the results of last year, they accounted for 18 percent of the budget.

The head of the Ministry of Finance explained the growth of secret expenses precisely by the desire to pay off 800 billion rubles of loans of defense enterprises. The terms of calculation on these loans expire in 2017-2018, the official noted, but thanks to early calculation, the state will be able to save on interest.

The total amount of loans taken by Russian defense enterprises for the speedy re -equipment of the army today exceeds 1 trillion rubles.