RIA NOVOSTI. The amount of government investments, which are scheduled in the Russian budget for the next three years, remained virtually the same, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at a Cabinet meeting.
“Investments remained unchanged, we took into account only a 5% cut in spending on goods, work and services for public needs, in accordance with the pre-election items announced by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin," the minister said.
He noted that the investments for 2015 were calculated through indexation based on deflator indexes.