In the first six months of 2023, total budget expenditure rose to almost 15 trillion rubles (€142.3 billion), an increase of 2.5 trillion rubles (€23.7 billion) on the previous year, with defence spending responsible for almost the entire difference, economic analyst Boris Grozovsky says. The Russian government has simultaneously increased military spending while decreasing spending in other sectors, which is “why budget statistics are no longer being released,” Grozovsky added.

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    1 year ago

    Sure, I’m not disputing that.

    The message I was reacting to claimed that since the money Austria pays to Russia isn’t spent directly on weapons in foreign countries, there’s no moral issue in doing that. Which is not true.