Finance Ministry: Russia's budget revenues will post a deficit of $ 200 billion

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Russia's budget revenues will post a deficit of $ 200 billion, forecasters Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on January, 30, while speaking in State Duma of Russia.  According to him, in 2009 export would go down to 269 billion rubles and import will go down to $ 245billion, reports a REGNUM correspondent.

The Russian economy substantially depends on world’s demand on energy and other raw materials recourses, but demand has been falling due to going on recession of world largest economies, said Kudrin.

At the same time, according to the Central Bank chairman Sergei Ignatyev, in 2009 an export from Russia will overdraw an import by 20-50 billion against the price of the dual currency basket in 41 ruble.