TABLE-Russia's first-half 2025 budget deficit at 1.7%/GDP, finance ministry says

BY Reuters | ECONOMIC | 07/07/25 10:30 AM EDT
          MOSCOW, July 7 (Reuters) - Russia ran a budget deficit
of 3.69 trillion roubles ($46.9 billion), or 1.7% of gross
domestic product, in the first half of the year, the same as the
deficit target for the entire year, the finance ministry said on
Tuesday, citing preliminary data.

 RUSSIA'S BUDGET (in trillion roubles):
                  Jan-June        Plan for 2025
 Revenues         17.585          38.506
 Spending         21.278          42.299
 Balance          -3.694          -3.792
 % of GDP         -1.7%           -1.7%
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($1 = 78.6955 roubles)

 (Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya; writing by Gleb Bryanski;
editing by Barbara Lewis)

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