The government has classified a third of Russia’s budget Russia’s federal budget is shrouded in a haze of state secrets as commodity revenues plummet and spending on the war and security forces skyrockets. As of March 21, the Russian government spent 2.4 trillion rubles, or $31 billion, on secret and unspecified items, Bloomberg reports, citing the operational statistics of the Ministry of Finance. Compared to the same period last year, secret appropriations jumped by almost 130% and for the first time became the largest item of expenditure for the treasury. For comparison, the Ministry of Finance spent 1.551 trillion rubles on “social policy”, including pensions and payments for children. To support the national economy – 567 billion rubles. For health care and education – 250 billion rubles each, that is, almost 10 times less than for “secret” and unspecified articles. Although in the first two months of 2023 oil and gas budget revenues sank by 46%, and non-oil revenues by 9%, the government spends as if there are no problems with tax collection. “The surge in spending is associated with arms purchases, payments to the mobilized and an attempt to complete landmark infrastructure projects before the end of the current presidential term,” says Alexander Isakov, Russia economist at Bloomberg Economics. Despite the fact that by mid-March the total budget expenditures exceeded 7 trillion rubles, the share of “secret” reached about a third, breaking the record of 2015, when every fifth ruble spent by the government was “secret”. According to Finanz Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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A fake video of “Ukrainian Nazis” shooting at a car with a woman and a child disappeared from the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Twitter account. The video disappeared on the afternoon of March 28. I noticed the channel Vot Tak. A day earlier, the pro-Russian Telegram channels and Twitter of the Russian Foreign Ministry published a video in which the Ukrainian military allegedly insulted a woman for speaking Russian. The video turned out to be fake: it was filmed in Russian-controlled territory. “Once a Nazi, forever a Nazi. Ukrainians live in such terror: see how the Ukrainian military humiliate and shoot at a mother with a child in the back seat, calling her a “pig” and a “scum” just because she speaks Russian,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter. . According to Protest Russia Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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Something is starting in the Caucasus of the Russian Federation: in a day, two attacks by militants on a traffic police post in Karabulak, Ingushetia and a police department in Gudermes, Chechnya. It looks like the worst deja vu from the 90s. Add to this the endless flights of unidentified UFOs into the territory of the Russian Federation from Ukraine, the widespread “pops”, and, of course, an absurd war for no reason on a huge front that devours hundreds of mobilized Russians a day. Putin’s stability turned out to be a myth. The frankly aggressive fuss of the “successors” against each other clearly speaks of the precariousness of power and the stakes of the courtiers on its imminent fall. Compromising evidence 2.0 @kompr
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The government will begin to close state institutions across Russia after the collapse of budget revenues The Ministry of Finance proposed the government to reduce the number of federal state institutions (FKU) – the most numerous type of state structures, the maintenance of which costs the state 1.8 trillion rubles. Every year. According to RBC with reference to the draft final report of the Ministry of Finance for 2022, it is proposed to put under the knife all PKU, except for those that are under the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies. This measure, as noted by the Ministry of Finance, will help “increase the efficiency of budget spending.” As of March 21, according to the department’s statistics, they almost doubled their income – 7 trillion rubles. against 3.7 trillion rubles. According to Rosstat, as of January 1, 2023, 9,024 federal state government institutions were registered in Russia. Among them – research institutes, think tanks, archives, museums, clinics and hospitals, leper colonies, anti-plague centers and psychiatric hospitals. According to Moscow Times Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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Science in the Russian Federation was seized by morons Previously, people lived for 900 years, but then life expectancy was reduced due to “original sin,” says Alexander Kudryavtsev, director of the Institute of General Genetics, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He stated this, referring to a certain “graph from the Internet”, at the conference “God-man-world”. According to Kudryavtsev, people began to live less after the Great Flood, and all genetic mutations that cause disease are explained by “original sin.”