The Russian budget remains scarce in 2011, the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Kudrin predicts.

«The part of expenses is necessary at the end of the year therefore, we keep us the forecast for deficiency hardly more than 1 %» – he has declared.

Budget incomes in the first half of the year have made 5 trillion and 304 billion, expenses are about  4 trillion and 654 billion roubles, Minister of Finance Alexey Kudrin has informed on it at session of presidium of the government. Proficiency of the budget for this period has summed 640,2 billion roubles, the minister has specified.

In the beginning of year Kudrin said that the budget deficit in 2011 can become zero at the mid-annual price for oil $115 for barrel however, the prices after earthquake in Japan have decreased about $100 for barrel.

In the beginning of July prime minister Vladimir Putin recognized that the government has planned deficiency for 2012 for which country presidential elections at a rate of 2,7 % from gross national product are planned.