MOSCOW, January 13. /TASS/. Russia's budget deficit in 2015 amounted to 2.6% of GDP, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Wednesday.
"The budget deficit last year amounted to 2.6% of GDP. The number is lower than we had originally planned, I recall it was 3%," he said.
Earlier, the Finance Ministry forecast a deficit of 2.8-2.9%.
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