{"id":20797,"date":"2024-09-25T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=20797"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:00:39","slug":"how-the-kremlin-forces-russians-to-tighten-their-belts-for-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/how-the-kremlin-forces-russians-to-tighten-their-belts-for-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How the kremlin forces russians to tighten their belts for the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western media reported that russia plans to increase its military budget by 25% next year. At the same time, for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, russia has decided to significantly cut social spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u25fd\ufe0f In total, russia will allocate 13.2 trillion rubles to military and national security in the coming year, which accounts for about 40% of the entire budget\u2014an all-time high since the collapse of the ussr.<\/p>\n<p>\u25fd\ufe0f Despite russian officials&#8217; &#8220;peacekeeping&#8221; statements, the war remains the kremlin\u2019s top priority, and they are willing to sacrifice the interests of ordinary citizens to fund it. The substantial increase in war spending also shows that the so-called &#8220;smo&#8221; is not &#8220;going according to plan,&#8221; as moscow had previously intended to reduce military spending by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u25fd\ufe0f Additionally, economists suspect the russian central bank is falsifying data on commodity revenues, suggesting that the war and &#8220;ineffective&#8221; sanctions are taking a toll on the russian economy.<\/p>\n<p>The kremlin is losing control of the situation, and soon every russian will feel the economic cost of this war of aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western media reported that russia plans to increase its military budget by 25% next year. At the same time, for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, russia has decided to significantly cut social spending. \u25fd\ufe0f In total, russia will allocate 13.2 trillion rubles to military and national security in the coming year,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":538,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}