Putin approves new budget with record defense spending: around 32.5% of the 2025 budget — or 13.5 trillion rubles (€119 billion) — has been allocated for national defense

https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-russia-budget-moscow-record-defense-spending-kremlin-war-ukraine/

33 comments

  2. how much has been allocated for national offense?

  3. Huh. Why in the world would they need so much defense? Have they been behaving badly or something?

  5. Spending a third of your budget to bankrupt the entire country.

    Has Russia been taking financial advice from my ex girlfriend?

  7. As a rough point of reference, the EU’s GDP is around 20 Trillion Euros, about 10X that of Russia, so they could very sustainably dedicate 200B/year to fighting Russia with just 1% of GDP.

  9. 13.5 trillion Rubles is worth around $56.73 USD now right?

  11. Let him bankrupt his country and see how long he remains in power

  12. So that’s massive cuts in public services. At what point will Russians finally wake up and start challenging their mad tzar?

  13. Sorry Yvgeny. You no eat today. Daddy needs to be turn to pink mist and maybe you eat den.

  14. Wasn’t something like this not one of the causes that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?

  16. Wow, that’s literally soviet era type of spending. Things are astronomically bad.

  18. Like Prussia before it, Russia is a military with a country, not a country with a military.

  20. $100 billion of that budget, gets spent on bribes and corruption

  23. They’re getting close to NK numbers (36%). Definitely the sign of a healthy democracy.

  24. Defense? You keep using that word. I do not think you know what that means.

  25. He’s telling everyone that it will take 32 percent of all their money just to reach 14% of what America budgeted for defense in just 2024.
    The numbers are mind boggling and grotesquely comical.
    If there were just some way he could make it all stop. Some way to cut through the red tape and allow his party to save face.

  26. Huh if the US did a 32% defense budget that would be almost 2.2  trillion dollars and would cause every defense contractor investor to die from prolonged arousal 

  27. “Approves”. As if there were due democratic processes at work. He decreed it.

    Western media should really stop painting Russia as if it was a Democracy. It is really important to stop reproducing this false narrative that has been designed by Putin in order to legitimate his dictatorship.

  28. Very important for Russia to have an enormous defense budget because practically the whole world wants to invade them and steal their land. Russia needs to protect itself.

    /S

  32. I’m always amazed when news about laws, bugets and procedures in Russia are posted. Russia is basically Putin’s country. He does whatever he likes. The budget is 13.5 trillion rubles until he decides it has to be 20 trillion rubles and this happens the next day. It’s not a real country.

  33. And thanks to China and other asshole countries for buying putin’s oil and enabling him to commit more warcrimes

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