Russia has been unable to spend 750 billion rubles from the budget.

The amount of undeveloped federal Russian budget, the so-called "fiscal overhang, at 1 Nov., 2008 amounted to about 750 billion rubles. This is illustrated by the Federal Treasury, writes the newspaper Kommersant. "The budget overhang regions of Russia on 1 October this year reached 1.3 trillion rubles.
The publication notes that the funds were not spent from the federal budget, are primarily for health and public administration. Regions do not have been able to spend money budgets primarily for utilities. In the first half of the federal "budget overhang of not less than 700 billion rubles.
For the current year, total federal budget expenditure is planned at 7.56 trillion rubles. In doing so, for the January-October Russia as a whole was able to spend 5.3 trillion rubles, and in October - still 748 billion. In regions of the planned spending 6.58 trillion rubles have been spent 3.92 trillion rubles.
Nepotrachennye budgets, which will have to spend at the end of the year could spur the growth of prices in the country. Since the beginning of the year inflation in Russia has reached 12.5 percent, exceeding the official forecast in a preliminary 11.8 percent. In December, ministry oobschili that year-end inflation of 13.5 percent.