{"id":116908,"date":"2024-12-05T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"house-of-representatives-passes-2025-budget-with-deficit","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116908\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives passes 2025 budget with deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 5, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The House of Representatives, the lower house of the Belarusian National Assembly, has passed the second reading of the national budget for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It projected revenues of 45.84 billion rubels (a year on year increse of 8.1 percent) and expenditures of 50.3 billion rubels (up 12 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deficit is 4.46 billion (some $1.36 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Finance Minister Juryj Sieliviersta\u016d said there were plans to finance about 1 billion rubels in deficit with external funding. &#8220;Part of these funds will be attracted from the Russian Federation in the form of a loan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The projected budget deficit is not worth \u201ca serious conversation,\u201d said Anatol Charyton\u010dyk, a senior researcher at the BEROC think tank, describing the revenue estimate as very conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pozirk_color_blank_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> \u042d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">\u042d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0430<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Finance ministry earmarks $4.5 billion to cover 2025 foreign debt payments<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">November 11, Pozirk. A 2025 draft budget allocates about 10 billion rubels for state debt repayment, with 5 billion rubels set aside for its servicing, Finance Minister Juryj Seliviersta\u016d told Belarus 1 yesterday evening. The government plans to raise an &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/113221\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 5, Pozirk. The House of Representatives, the lower house of the Belarusian National Assembly, has passed the second reading of the national budget for 2025. It projected revenues of 45.84 billion rubels (a year on year increse of 8.1 percent) and expenditures of 50.3 billion rubels (up 12 percent). 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