In the first six months of 2023, total budget expenditure rose to almost 15 trillion rubles (€142.3 billion), an increase of 2.5 trillion rubles (€23.7 billion) on the previous year, with defence spending responsible for almost the entire difference, economic analyst Boris Grozovsky says. The Russian government has simultaneously increased military spending while decreasing spending in other sectors, which is “why budget statistics are no longer being released,” Grozovsky added.

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    11 year ago

    Shouldn’t these thing fall under one oft the 11(?) sanctions packs we put on Russia so far?

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      11 year ago

      Just as an example, some of the Western chips found in Russian weapons are also installed in dish washers. You can buy them online without anybody really looking into it and have them delivered to say Kazhkhstan and then transport them into Russia. It is basicly impossible to enforce, as anybody can buy them with such ease.