RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ON EXTRA BUDGET REVENUES








MOSCOW, MARCH 1, 2001. /RIA Novosti correspondent/ -- The government of Russia plans to mobilize extra revenues of 195 billion roubles (about USD 7 billion) for the federal  budget in 2001, Tatyana Golikova, deputy finance minister,  reported at today's briefing on the results of the government  session. 


	According to her, the most pressing problem of the year 2001 is to mobilize extra revenues instead of the volumes stipulated  in the fundamental law on the budget. 


	Two weeks ago the State Duma (lower house of the Russian  parliament) considered a law on amending the Law of the Federal  Budget for 2001 with due regard to the need to pay foreign debts and "the outstanding foreign sources of budget deficit  financing." Russia's Finance Ministry forecasted at that time  extra budget revenues at 108 billion roubles. "This is the  forecast the government plans to provide this year," Mrs.  Golikova noted. 


	However, she pointed out, after the discussion of the budget parameters in the Duma the situation boils down to the following: to execute expenditure items stipulated in the fundamental law on the budget, i.e., 1,193 billion roubles, and to execute budget  item No. 120 on extra revenues distribution, the government will  have to mobilize extra revenues in the amount of 195 billion  roubles instead of 108 billion roubles.