{"id":32828,"date":"2025-05-30T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=32828"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:08:31","slug":"how-kremlin-is-forcing-ordinary-russians-to-finance-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/how-kremlin-is-forcing-ordinary-russians-to-finance-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kremlin is forcing ordinary Russians to finance the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As russia rapidly loses budget revenues due to the war and sanctions, the government is turning to a \u201csimple\u201d solution \u2014 taking more money from its own citizens. The plan for collecting fines from russians and businesses in 2025 has been sharply increased \u2014 by a third.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fAccording to the updated plans, the state aims to collect nearly 258 billion rubles (around $2.8 billion) in fines, penalties, and confiscations in 2025 \u2014 66 billion rubles ($713 million) more than previously planned. Drivers will be hit the hardest: revenue from traffic violation fines is expected to rise nearly eightfold.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fThe government also plans to extract billions from businesses for \u201ctax violations,\u201d from truckers for \u201croad damage,\u201d and from ordinary people through criminal code fines and property confiscations.<\/p>\n<p>russians often say they are \u201cnot political\u201d and can\u2019t influence anything \u2014 yet the war is being funded directly from their wallets through fines and penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As russia rapidly loses budget revenues due to the war and sanctions, the government is turning to a \u201csimple\u201d solution \u2014 taking more money from its own citizens. The plan for collecting fines from russians and businesses in 2025 has been sharply increased \u2014 by a third. \u25ab\ufe0fAccording to the updated plans, the state aims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32829,"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":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828","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=32828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}