# New Partnerships in Global Development Finance

## Moscow International Conference, February 17-18, 2010

## Ministry of Finance
of the Russian Federation

www.minfin.ru
With support of The World Bank
and the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development

## Russia Quadrupled Aid To Developing Countries In 2009

MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Russia gave some $800 million in aid to developing countries last year, nearly quadrupling its contribution from the year before, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Wednesday at a World Bank conference in Moscow.

The country gave $220 million to aid developing nations in 2008, Kudrin said.