In Russia say the failure of future privatization – the budget will lose about $22 billion
The main reason for losses – the value of the assets of the largest Russian state-owned companies fell by half.
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The budget of the Russian Federation due to a sharp drop in the value of state-owned companies may receive less in the course of their privatization, some 1.5 trillion rubles (22 billion dollars, 1 dollar 70 rubles), said the head of the Duma Committee on property Sergey Gavrilov, reports TASS.
“Over the past two years the total cost of our companies fell by more than two times, Rosneft is now worth not $85, and $45 billion In this regard in the course of privatization, the budget could be short up to 1.5 trillion rubles”, – he said.
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The MP also stressed that the question of the dividends that these companies pay into the budget. The MP reminded that the amount of revenues from dividends of state-owned companies is about 100 billion rubles a year.
