putin has signed a law increasing russia\u2019s federal budget spending by 829 billion rubles ($10.36 billion), despite a record budget deficit.<\/p>\n
Despite kremlin\u2019s loud claims about “economic resilience,” “GDP growth,” and the “ineffectiveness of sanctions,” actual indicators tell a different story \u2014 the country is sinking deeper into debt.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the additional expenditures are not directed toward supporting the economy or the population, but instead toward the military and security apparatus.<\/p>\n
For ordinary russians, this means new taxes, inflation, rising prices, and a further decline in living standards. Social programs are being cut, while basic expenses are soaring. The future holds an even worse economic outlook, more poverty, and greater strain on the budget.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> Earlier, the Center reported that russia\u2019s economic problems are so severe they are even being discussed at propagandist events like the SPIEF (st. petersburg international economic forum).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" putin has signed a law increasing russia\u2019s federal budget spending by 829 billion rubles ($10.36 billion), despite a record budget deficit. Despite kremlin\u2019s loud claims about “economic resilience,” “GDP growth,” and the “ineffectiveness of sanctions,” actual indicators tell a different story \u2014 the country is sinking deeper into debt. Moreover, the additional expenditures are not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34052,"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-34051","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\/34051","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=34051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}