While Russian propaganda is inventing new fairy tales for those who do not think much, the Ministry of Finance of the terrorist country begins to whine
"Prospects look terrible" - such is the headline of the report of the Ministry of Finance, in which they reported on the collapse of the oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget
And a little more: The gas war with Europe and the growing problems with oil exports to Asia continue to deprive the Russian budget of resource rent flows.
In August, revenues from oil and gas corporations to the federal treasury decreased for the fourth month in a row and were at the lowest level since June 2021, the Ministry of Finance reported on Friday.
Over the month, the budget collected 671.9 billion rubles of oil and gas taxes - almost 100 billion rubles less than in July, and 23.9 billion rubles less than in August 2021.
Compared to the maximum shown in April, when the budget received 1.797 trillion rubles from oil and gas against the backdrop of soaring prices and taxes last year, fees have collapsed by 2.6 times.
At the same time, oil revenues remained stable, according to data from the Ministry of Finance: despite the fact that China and India reduced purchases of Russian barrels to a minimum since the first month of the war, NPDI fees for oil increased by 40.4 billion rubles, and export duties - by 10 billion (compared to June).
However, the gas part of the budget continued to rapidly deflate along with the production and exports of Gazprom, which in August collapsed by 34% and 59%, respectively.
But as the "greatest world leader" putin said - "the economy is not a rubber ass, a rubber ass is the heads of Russians, which means propaganda is propaganda and again propaganda ... And I will quietly run away with all the money stolen from the Russians!"