
The speaker of the Federation Council emphasized the need to monitor the structure of the debt of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation
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The President of the Russian Federation instructed to postpone the repayment of regions' debt on budget loans from 2026 to a later date.
Valentina Matvienko asked the Ministry of Finance to pay special attention to monitoring the dynamics and structure of regional budget debt.
She recalled that Vladimir Putin instructed to postpone the repayment of regions' debt on budget loans from 2026 to a later date, and the corresponding law was adopted two months later.
MOSCOW, October 5 – RIA Novosti. Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko asked the Ministry of Finance to pay special attention to monitoring the dynamics and structure of the debt of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
“The situation with loans requires constant attention. We would ask the Ministry of Finance to pay special attention to monitoring the dynamics and structure of the debt of the constituent entities’ budgets,” she said at parliamentary hearings on the draft budget of the Russian Federation for 2027-2029.
Matvienko recalled that in April of this year, at a meeting with members of the Council of Legislators, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to postpone the repayment of regions' debt on budget loans from 2026 to a later date.

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