The Russian government is going to increase borrowings in the domestic market this year. The authorities will borrow from Russians a "trifling" sum of 200 billion rubles. Otherwise, the state will not have enough money to implement the budget. On additional borrowing to reporters, the head of the department of state debt and state financial assets of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Konstantin Vyshkovsky. "Yes, we can increase a little, billions for two hundred. This is due to the fact that the ruble was stronger than the one with which the budget was drawn up, "the official said.. The main financial document of the country provides for the ruble exchange rate for the current year of 64.7 rubles per dollar. At the same time in the first months of the year the rate fluctuated around 57-58 rubles. At the same time, the state does not intend to refuse from external borrowing. Their volumes will not be reduced, even in spite of the introduction of new economic restrictions and aggravation of relations with the West. "So far, no changes, at least in the direction of reduction, or in the direction of redistribution, for example, from external to internal. If we change something now, it has nothing to do with the sanctioning topic. It, on the contrary, is connected with macroeconomic ", - the representative of the Ministry of Finance. Last week there were rumors about how the government is going to raise funds from the population. This will be done through the sale to citizens of federal loan bonds. Domestic borrowing will become a protective measure in case of possible restrictions on the purchase of debt securities by US citizens. The Ministry of Finance denied the assumption that the sanctions would lead to the refusal of foreign investors from profitable Russian bonds. Mass sale is not observed and is not expected. "Yes, someone could not stand it, frightened, probably. But I say again that from the point of view of profitability levels this has not changed much, and I think we already said that the share of non-residents, in our view, will not fundamentally change.

All investors are normal people, "- said Vyshkovsky. The volume of raising funds through internal borrowings in 2018. was originally planned at 817 trillion rubles. Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak did not rule out that while maintaining high oil prices (and hence increasing revenues from its sale abroad), the domestic borrowing program will be reduced. Now we are talking about the fact that it will increase to 1 trillion rubles. The same amount of money the state took in the domestic market last year.