The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation reported that in April the difference between the expected and actually received oil and gas revenues to the state treasury amounted to 133.1 billion rubles.
The agency predicted that last month the budget would receive additional oil and gas revenues in the amount of 798.4 billion rubles. Meanwhile, in fact, Russia received more than 665 billion rubles from the sale of oil and gas.
As for the current month, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation predicts that the amount of additional oil and gas revenues of the federal budget will amount to 414 billion rubles.
Recall that in March the Russian budget received less than 300 billion rubles of oil and gas revenues.
It is worth noting that at the moment the European Union is preparing a new, sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. According to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, as part of this package, the European Union will impose a ban on the import of Russian oil, and Sberbank and two other unnamed banks (according to Politico, we are talking about Rosselkhozbank and Moscow Credit Bank) will be disconnected from SWIFT. In addition, broadcasting of three major Russian TV channels will be banned on the territory of the European Union. Which ones – von der Leyen did not specify. Agence France Presse (AFP), referring to the draft document on sanctions, also reported that Patriarch Kirill would be included in the sanctions list.
Meanwhile, the European Union is discussing the idea of giving its three member countries the opportunity to keep imports of Russian oil until 2024. We are talking about Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
