“These 29-odd (trillion rubles of expenses -

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) in 2025 are expenses according to the budget rule,” RIA Novosti quotes Siluanov.

According to him, this level of spending allows by 2025 to reduce the budget with a deficit of 0.7% of GDP.

Earlier, the Russian government approved the draft of a new three-year budget, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported.