As the newspaper writes, revenues increased compared to July, when they amounted to 1.76 trillion rubles.

At the same time, the data on budget execution for August are preliminary and may be revised later.

According to the Ministry of Finance, Russia's budget surplus for January-August of this year decreased to 137.443 billion rubles.

At the same time, Russia's budget is expected to be in surplus this year, despite all the "gloomy forecasts".