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In the first two months of the current year, the Russian Federation spent 40% of...

With the Graph's Outcome: The media found out how many Russian Federation spends on the army and defense

In the first two months of the current year, the Russian Federation spent 40% of budget funds from 4. 98 trillion rubles allocated to the defense sector in 2023. The Russian Federation spent almost $ 26 billion in the first two months of 2023. This amount was 282% more than the one that was spent in the same period a year ago. About it reports the information agency Reuters. "In the first two months of 2022, 525. 4 billion rubles (more than $ 6.

5 billion) were spent on national defense," the journalists said. Such data is provided by the Federal Treasury from the budget. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance stopped publishing some monthly data on the budget in May last year, but now added data to the portal for 2022 and early 2023. According to these data, Russia planned to spend 4. 98 trillion rubles in 2023.

However, in the first two months of the current year, more than 40% of the planned annual funds for the defense sector were spent. It was also reported that last year the Russian Federation spent 5. 51 trillion rubles on defense, or 17. 1% of total costs compared to 3. 57 trillion rubles, or 14. 4%, in 2021. At the same time, from January to April, the Russian budget deficit amounted to 3. 4 trillion rubles compared to the surplus of 1. 2 trillion rubles in 2022.

"Moscow spends a lot, and the profits from the sale of energy are falling," the observers said. In conclusion, the authors of the publication emphasized that in the first two months of this year, the expenditures of the Russian Federation for national defense amounted to 36. 2% of the total budget expenditures, which is almost twice exceeding the costs of social policy and almost four times more than the costs of the economy.