Minfin wants to take less oil dollars into the cashier's office for current expenses and put more aside for a black day. We're gonna have to raise taxes and cut spending, and the ruble is gonna fall.

The Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov, at an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation on 23 April 2025, Photo by Alexander Miridonov / Commersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press. The Minister of Finance, Anton Siluanov, proposed that the budget rule be "set" as one of the main monetary instruments by which the Russian authorities remove oil revenues from the economy (detailed here).