The russian authorities are no longer even trying to hide that they are willing to sacrifice the country\u2019s socio-economic development and civilian budget spending without hesitation in order to continue the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f russian finance minister anton siluanov openly admitted during the moscow financial forum that the budget\u2019s main priority is the \u201cneeds of the front.\u201d According to him, in order to finance military needs and balance the budget, the ministry had to resort to sequestration \u2014 postponing some civilian expenditures to later periods and \u201cdigging into\u201d the resource base.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Such public admissions by senior officials point to an established trend: the kremlin leadership has definitively put russia\u2019s economy on a war footing. Social programs, infrastructure, healthcare and education are being pushed into the background.<\/p>\n
Through such statements, officials are signaling to their own society that any civilian needs are now secondary, leaving citizens with no choice but to accept the decline in living standards that such a policy will inevitably lead to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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