Siluanov also told journalists that his ministry
had recalculated its budget forecasts to take into account oil
prices at $60 a barrel and that he expected the ruble's average
exchange rate to be around 51 rubles per dollar in 2015.
He added that state bank VTB <VTBR.MM> could get 100 billion
rubles ($1.9 billion) from the National Wealth Fund by the end
of the year and 150 billion rubles more in 2015, while
Gazprombank <GZPRI.RTS> could get 70 billion rubles this or next
year.
(Reporting by Dasha Korsunskaya; writing by Alexander Winning
and Vladimir Soldatkin)
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