russian propagandists claim that this year the russian budget received more than 100 billion rubles in taxes from the occupied Ukrainian territories.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f However, this amount is significantly less than what the russian budget spends on maintaining the occupied territories. Moreover, much of these funds are allocated as subsidies\u2014untargeted revenues that cannot be properly monitored, opening up enormous opportunities for embezzlement by local gauleiters.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f With claims like this, propaganda attempts to create the illusion that the occupied territories are thriving under russian control. These manipulations are aimed both at the residents of the occupied territories to promote the narrative of a “happy occupation” and at russians who may be frustrated that vast amounts of budget funds are being directed to the occupied territories while their own needs are neglected.<\/p>\n
In reality, the economies of the occupied regions are far from pre-war levels and are in decline due to the extensive destruction caused by russian shelling and the incompetence of the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian propagandists claim that this year the russian budget received more than 100 billion rubles in taxes from the occupied Ukrainian territories. \u25ab\ufe0f However, this amount is significantly less than what the russian budget spends on maintaining the occupied territories. Moreover, much of these funds are allocated as subsidies\u2014untargeted revenues that cannot be properly monitored,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21768,"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-21773","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\/21773","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=21773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}