Revenue collected from the oil and natural gas industry in Russia is in part behind the 19 percent gain from last year, a federal tax director said Monday. Mikhail Mishustin, the head of the Federal Taxation Service, told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the budget has received $240 billion in tax collections over the last 10 months, which was 19.1 percent higher than during the same period one year ago. “I would like to note that the increase is largely due to the oil and gas industry that accounts for 60 percent of the revenue increase,” he said. Total Russian crude oil production is up 1.8 percent from January. The nation’s energy ministry published no data for natural gas […]