Om man ser på den här grafen över ryska reserver:
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/rurefeg:ind
och sedan läser denna artikel:
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Besides spending cuts, the government also plans to drain almost half the money in its Reserve Fund this year -- some 2.7 trillion roubles ($43.5 billion) -- to help contain the deficit, RBC said. The fund will be fully exhausted in 2016 if the oil price remains at $50 per barrel, the newspaper reported.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/02/19/uk-russia-crisis-budget-idUKKBN0LN0ZK20150219
Så är det lite svårt att se hur det går ihop. Hur små är de ryska reserverna som kan användas egentligen?
Självklart vill inte fascisterna skära ned på investeringarna i anfallsstyrkor:
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It said the approved cuts amounted to 909.1 billion roubles resulting from across-the-board reductions in expenditure of 10 percent -- except in defence and social security, two areas that have been ringfenced by President Vladimir Putin.
Additional cutbacks to slice a further 427.2 billion roubles off spending have been put forward by the Finance Ministry, but have yet to be approved, the paper added.
Almost half of this would come from the cancellation or delay of state investment projects, with child benefits, public sector pay and industrial subsidies also slated for cuts.
Nu är det en hel del ryska lögner tyvärr även inom denna sektor som ofta håller sig till sanningen även i Ryssland - man kan läsa mellan raderna att ekonomerna vill en sak men fascisterna i Kreml vägrar minska utgifterna, de verkar vara helt galna och fortsätter spendera vilket man kan se av årets stora budgetunderskott:
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Russia's budget deficit will rise to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2015 despite more than $20 billion (12 billion pounds) in spending cuts, the country's RBC Daily newspaper reported on Thursday, citing Finance Ministry plans.
The projections underscore the scale of budgetary problems facing Russia as a result of the slump in global oil prices, which has led to a sharp fall in projected tax revenues, and an array of Western sanctions tied to the crisis in Ukraine.