MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. Russian oil companies paid 18.8 bln rubles ($241.0 mln) into the federal budget under the fuel damper mechanism in February 2026, according to materials published by the Finance Ministry. In January, oil companies received a payment of 16.9 bln rubles ($216.7 mln).

In February 2025, payments amounted to 148.3 bln rubles ($1.90 bln).

By the end of 2025, oil companies received 881.8 bln rubles ($11.31 bln) from the budget under the damper mechanism, while in 2024 the figure stood at 1.815 trillion rubles ($23.27 bln).

The last time oil companies paid into the budget rather than receiving funds from it was in February 2021 — 2.8 bln rubles ($35.9 mln).