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The National Welfare Fund is used to support the budget and finance infrastructure projects.
If all the funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) are spent, Russia will lose protection from those external risks that it has faced more than once over the past few years. This was stated by Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. He was quoted by TASS.
Speaking at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, he recalled that the National Welfare Fund is a reserve that is used as a last resort to support the budget, and in recent years - actively to finance important infrastructure and priority projects.
It was previously reported that as of October 1, the volume of the National Welfare Fund decreased by 210.28 billion rubles, to 12.985 trillion as of today.

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