Regions refuse to raise officials' salaries to balance budgets for 2027. In the Rostov region, the planned increase of 4% was canceled back in July. Linkage to the index was not restored in the project for the next three years. At the same time, the region reduced the staff of government agencies. The budget for 2027 is planned with a deficit of 29.66 billion rubles.
In the Moscow region, the attachment of civil servants' salaries has already been suspended until 2028. This will save the budget more than 500 million rubles. In the Volgograd region, it is proposed to extend the existing freeze on officials' salaries until that date. The corresponding bill was submitted to the Regional Duma: the current restrictions expire on January 1, 2027.
In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the authorities also proposed to abandon the wage peg for next year, temporarily stop providing housing subsidies to officials and compensate the sanatoriums. Expenses for the governor's office will be reduced by 10%. In the Stavropol region, salaries for officials will be frozen even more - until 2030.
Savings also affects social spending, but the solutions vary between regions. In the Rostov region, it is planned to increase the payments every year by 4%. The Nizhny Novgorod project includes freezing part of the payments to veterans, pensioners, large families and the poor.