OREANDA-NEWS  Budget expenditures for the implementation of national projects, as of April 1, amounted to 600.6 billion rubles. This was reported in the Ministry of Finance of Russia. "Execution of federal budget expenditures for the implementation of national projects... it amounted to 600.6 billion rubles," the report says.

It is noted that this figure is 20.1% of the planned budget assignments.

Earlier, the Ministry of Finance reported that the federal budget of Russia in January — March, according to preliminary estimates, was executed with a deficit of 2.4 trillion rubles.