OREANDA-NEWS  From September 7 to October 6, 2026, the Russian Ministry of Finance will buy currency and gold according to the budget rule for 55.6 billion rubles, 2.5 billion rubles per day, the ministry said.

"The expected volume of additional oil and gas revenues of the federal budget is projected in September 2026 in the amount of 100.7 billion rubles. The total deviation of the actually received oil and gas revenues from the expected monthly volume of oil and gas revenues and the estimate of the base monthly volume of oil and gas revenues from the base monthly volume of oil and gas revenues by the end of August 2026 amounted to -45 billion rubles," the materials on the website say.

"Thus, the total amount of funds allocated for the purchase of foreign currency and gold will amount to 55.6 billion rubles. The operations will be conducted from September 7, 2026 to October 6, 2026, respectively, the daily volume of purchases of foreign currency and gold will amount to 2.5 billion rubles," the materials say.

In the period from August 7 to September 4, the total volume of purchases of foreign currency and gold by the Ministry of Finance under the budget rule is 136.17 billion rubles, and the volume of daily transactions is 6.5 billion rubles.