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Russia's Finance Ministry stopped publishing detailed data budget spending in April. But with a few calculations, it's possible to get a pretty good picture of what's going on. Due to the war, , defence spending until July was at least ~1.2tn RUB (~20bn $) higher than 2021.
This also means that defence spending until July was >1tn higher than planned. Of course this does not account for changes in Russia's stocks of weapons and ammunition. Refilling those will be much more expensive, but it was not yet visible in the budget until July 2022.
Most of classified spending - unsurprisingly - goes to National Defence. For example, all spending on arms procurement is classified. There is some classified spending in National Security, Economy, and General Govmt, but that is about it. Chart from: https://swp-berlin.org/en/publication/russias-government-budget-risks-of-stagn ation
We just have to distribute the classified spending (3tn so far this year) to the budget lines. There are two plausible ways: Either each budget line gets the same% of classified spending as it had last year. Or each line gets the same nominal amount and defence gets the rest.
Defence is 2.9tn until July. If you distribute classified spending according to last year's%, the result is similar: 2.6tn.
The full-year defence budget was supposed to be 3.5tn RUB in 2022, but that will probably be surpassed in August/September. For the full year, something around 5-6tn RUB is realistic. The biggest chunk always comes in December.
It is possible to cross-check the 2.9tn defence spending with alternative
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