The State Duma approved the updated budget for 2009.

SyuzhetyIzmeneniya in the budget for the 2009-2011 budget adopted gody06.04.2009Duma in the first chteniiGosduma adopted on first reading an updated budget of Russia in 2009 and the planned period 2010 and 2011 years. That was reported by Interfax. " During the passage of the bill voted 314 deputies, against - 91, another member abstained. According to the radio station Ekho Moskvy, voted against the budget of all the Duma factions, except for United Russia. " The need to rewrite the budget came from the financial crisis of autumn 2008.
The new budget says that the country's income for the year amount to 6.7 trillion rubles. This is 4.2 trillion rubles less than planned. At the same time, costs will increase by 667 billion rubles to 9.7 trillion rubles. The budget deficit will be met from the Reserve Fund gained during times of high oil prices.
The new budget to-at the rate of 13 percent inflation, the average price for Russian oil at 41 dollars a barrel, as well as the volume of GDP at 40.42 trillion rubles. According to government forecasts GDP in Russia in 2009 will decline by 2.2 percent.
Work on an updated budget line ministries began almost immediately after the first budget was approved. It laid the price at $ 95 per barrel of Russian oil, and the budget surplus and GDP growth.
The increase in the updated budget is linked to government anti-crisis program. If it is deleted from the budget, it will turn out that the costs should be reduced by 940 billion rubles. In particular, national defense expenditures will decrease by nearly 140 billion rubles, while national issues - to 191 billion rubles, education - to 28,7 billion rubles.
After the first reading of the budget to pass two more readings in the Duma and Federation Council consideration. Only after that he will come to the President.