“The national debt has grown from 12.4% to 17.8%.

I consider such growth to be quite reasonable and uncritical.

For this, at one time, and reduced the national debt, so that in times of crisis to be able to borrow.

It is good that in the coming years the rate of growth of the national debt would be comparable to the growth of GDP, ”Kudrin wrote on Facebook.

Earlier, the Russian Accounts Chamber reported that Russia's national debt for 2020 increased by 5.4 trillion rubles and amounted to 18.986 trillion rubles. 

It is noted that in 2019 this figure was equal to 13.567 trillion rubles.