As of July 1, it amounted to 17% of GDP.
From the analytical note of the Accounting Chamber of Russia, it became known that the country’s public debt on July 1 exceeded the threshold of 20 trillion rubles.
According to RIA & # 8220;News & #8221; with reference to the document, from January to June, the debt increased by 1.48 trillion (7.8%), as a result, on the first day of the second half of the year, it is estimated at 20.423 trillion, which is 17.7% of the GDP volume that was previously forecast by analysts.
The document states that the domestic debt accounts for 16.2 trillion, another 506 billion was spent on debt servicing, while 434.5 billion of domestic debt was spent.
According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov, in the next few years the debt will amount to about 18% of the gross national product against the background of a decrease in the level of borrowing compared to last year.
Recall that in 2020, the state debt was 18.99 trillion rubles, in 2019-by 5.4 trillion less.
Also, in the period from mid-2019 to July 2020, the so-called net debt of Russia reached negative values thanks to the government’s reserves. But the fall in oil prices and the pandemic crisis led to a deterioration of the situation.
Earlier, as Topnews wrote, Bloomberg suggested that the new US and UK sanctions against Russia could affect the oligarchs and the national debt.