Record since the USSR: Putin in 2024 will spend one third of the Russian budget - the media

It is noted that the Kremlin head has signed a law on the federal budget for the period 2024-2026. The document prepared a few weeks ago the State Duma and then approved the Federation Council. As a result, next year the Russian authorities plan to spend on the army and the defense-industrial complex of almost a third of all expenses, and this has not happened since the Soviet times. "For the year for the article" National Defense "the budget will spend 10.

775 trillion rubles ($ 111 billion)- by 70% more than 2023 (6. 8 trillion rubles/76 billion dollars), 2. 3 times more than 2022- th (4. 7 trillion rubles/$ 52 billion), and three times higher than the pre -war 2021 (3. 5 trillion rubles/$ 39 billion), "the message reads. The share of military expenditures will reach 29. 5%, while only 19%were invested in the budget of 2023, and in 2022 17%. The Kremlin continues to demonstrate that more and more money will go to the war every year.

Such figures have been in the last years of the USSR. According to the archives of the former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, journalists continue in the material, and the authorities of the Soviet Union for 1990 have laid 29. 4% on "military purposes". Particular attention is paid to the article "National Security", where the budgets of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardia, special services are sewn. About 3. 3 trillion rubles ($ 37 billion) will go there.

As a result, it turns out that Russian power structures in 2024 will receive almost 40% of the total budget. The government had to sacrifice something, so it was decided to "cut" expenditures in support of the national economy and financing of education and medicine. "Everything for the front, everything for victory. For what is planned is enough. Normal, healthy budget," said the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov in September.