{"id":39871,"date":"2025-12-01T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/40-of-the-budget-for-the-army-putin-signed-russias-budget-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:21:34","slug":"40-of-the-budget-for-the-army-putin-signed-russias-budget-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/40-of-the-budget-for-the-army-putin-signed-russias-budget-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"40% of the budget for the army: Putin signed Russia&apos;s budget for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian dictator Putin plans to spend about 40% of budget funds on defense and the security bloc, which is a record since the USSR. This indicates the Kremlin&#039;s intention to continue the war, despite the budget deficit and cuts in social programs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2F1763905922-2322-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"40% of the budget for the army: Putin signed Russia&#039;s budget for 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to the adopted document, Russian dictator Putin plans to spend about 40% of all budget funds on defense and the security bloc. This is a record since the times of the USSR and a direct signal that peace is not part of the Kremlin&#039;s plans for the coming year. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, as conveyed by UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Due to falling oil and gas revenues caused by sanctions, next year&#039;s budget is set with a deficit of 1.6% of GDP. To &quot;plug the holes,&quot; social programs are being cut: their share is reduced to 25%, which is the lowest figure in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The budget provides for the introduction of new taxes and fees. In particular, the VAT rate is increased to 22%. As a result, working conditions for small businesses are complicated, and additional payments are introduced for both companies and ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Kremlin is putting the country on a &quot;wartime footing,&quot; strengthening the security apparatus and cutting everything not related to the army. This budget once again confirms that a protracted war remains a priority for the Kremlin, even at the cost of economic degradation and the impoverishment of its own population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the post says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, the Russian population will pay for the war. This will happen through tax pressure and the curtailment of social services, the CPD noted.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>Russian dictator Vladimir Putin signed a law on the federal budget of the Russian Federation for 2026-2028, which provides for a deficit and a significant increase in funding for military and security spheres. Spending on the army and security will exceed social spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian dictator Putin plans to spend about 40% of budget funds on defense and the security bloc, which is a record since the USSR. This indicates the Kremlin&#039;s intention to continue the war, despite the budget deficit and cuts in social programs. According to the adopted document, Russian dictator Putin plans to spend about 40% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}