On defense and bribery: Putin will spend $ 14 billion because of Prigogine's rebellion - Bloomberg

The calculations made Bloomberg. The publication was able to allocate several additional cost items that the Russian budget will have as a result of Prigogine's rebellion. First, the promotion of the Wagnets on June 24-25 stopped 200 km from Moscow. A similar rapid and without resistance has opened weakness of defense lines within the Russian Federation. Therefore, it suggests Bloomberg, these lines will be thrown out new forces and it will cost about $ 14 billion. (or 1. 3 trillion rubles. ).

Secondly, the rebellion compromised Putin in the eyes of his electrorat. Currently, Putin's support is about 74% and this is the lowest level from the fall of 2022, when partial mobilization was announced, the newspaper writes. In March 2024, the presidential election will take place, and the support level should be less than planned - such expectations have the Kremlin head. To increase the commitment of the electorate, they will increase the minimum wage.

The Russian President has already announced that in 2024 it would increase by 18. 5%. The increase will affect 5 million citizens of the Russian Federation. There will also be point payments - they will be received by particularly poor citizens, as well as those who have suffered from the war in one way or another. However, they emphasized in Bloomber, in the first half of 2023 the Government of the Russian Federation has already announced the budget deficit of 2. 6 trillion rubles.

In this case, almost half of the costs are either classified (26%) or social (20%). In the coming year, the budget revenues are expected by 10% - Finance Minister Andriy Siluanov said. Reduction is a consequence of sanctions imposed on the Russian economy due to the invasion of Ukraine. Seriously considering alternative sources of replenishment - one -time payments that private Russian and foreign companies should make.

And money and ecology will not look for money and ecology: everything will go to the support of the troops and social payments. Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Policy at the London School of Slavic Stan Noble noted that the main reason for the expenditure of the Russian government in the future is the consequences of the rebellion of Prigogine: "Increasing the feeling of uncertainty caused by the rebellion of Prigogine, can force the Kremlin to spend even more resources Putin.

" It should be noted that during the 2012 elections, 63. 60% of Russian citizens were voted for Putin, with 65. 34%. At the same time, the elections cost the Russian budget of 10. 3 billion rubles. Then they raised the minimum wage by 12%, indicated in the Bloomberg article. We remind that on July 16 Vladimir Putin, giving an interview with the TV channel "Russia-1", said that the war in Ukraine is "according to plan".

At the same time, he is convinced that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have success on the front, and Russian soldiers - "heroes". Meanwhile, on the morning of July 17, there was an explosion on the Crimean bridge: a canvas collapsed in several races, which the cars moved. The bridge was blocked for vehicles, and the heads of occupation administrations reported that they were removing restrictions on traffic during the curfew.