According to preliminary estimates, the surplus in the federal budget for the I half-year 2013. amounted to 306.88 billion rubles., or 1% of GDP. This is stated in the materials of the Ministry of Finance (MoF). During the same period of 2012 the federal budget surplus amounted to 270.7 billion rubles. Thus, the annualized budget surplus increased by 13%.
In June 2013. budget ran a surplus of 115.6 billion rubles. (2.1% of GDP over the last month) against a surplus of 197.7 billion rubles. (3.7% of GDP) in May 2013.