Federation Council approves amendments to 2024 budget suggesting deficit increase
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The bill proposes to increase the estimate of the federal budget deficit for 2024 to 2.12 trillion rubles ($23.9 bln), or 1.1% of GDP, from the currently approved 1.595 trillion rubles ($18 bln), or 0.9% of GDP