The defense service and debt service take up almost half of the budget, while farmers, oncologists and public sector workers receive less in the draft budget for 2027, defense spending increases from 12.1 to 17.1 trillion rubles, and national security from 3.9 to 4.3 trillion. Together, these areas take up 44% of federal spending, and another 4.6 trillion is spent on servicing the national debt. The rest is compressed. Social policy is reduced from 7.1 to 6.7 trillion (minus 6%, about 9.6% considering inflation of 4%), education by 5.4%, "national economy" from 4.92 to 4.62 trillion. The "Economic Development and Innovative Economy" program will be reduced by about 30% in 2027, and by 2029 by half compared to 2026. We have already discussed some of these data in the material on redistribution for the benefit of security, so here we will dwell on those areas that were not mentioned there. Agriculture loses the most: the state program will receive 261.7 billion rubles compared to 402.2 billion according to updated data as of September 1, 2026. The reduction is 140.4 billion, or 34.9%, corresponding to inflation of more than 37%. 6.36 billion is allocated to small agricultural businesses annually compared to 14.54 billion in 2026, support for potato and vegetable producers is reduced from 3.5 to 2.5 billion, wine production from 3.96 to 2.9 billion. State workers are guaranteed a wage hike of 6.8% in 2027, 6.9% in 2028 and 7.1% in 2029, but only for certain categories of workers in federal institutions. With inflation of 4%, real growth will be around 2.7-3%. Teachers, doctors and employees of regional institutions will depend on the capabilities of their regions. And they are limited: the total deficit of the regional budgets in 2025 reached a peak of 1.5 trillion, in the first half of 2026 it grew by another 134.2 billion, the budgets of 66 subjects are in deficit. The situation is most difficult in the Jewish autonomous regions, Vologda, Kemerovo and Irkutsk. Against this background, Senator Artmonov's initiative to close unused hospitals seems like a logical continuation of the savings we wrote about.

The defense service and debt service take up almost half of the budget, while farmers, oncologists and public sector workers receive less in the draft budget for 2027, defense spending increases from 12.1 to 17.1 trillion rubles, and national security from 3.9 to 4.3 trillion. Together, these areas take up 44% of federal spending, and another 4.6 trillion is spent on servicing the national debt. The rest is compressed. Social policy is reduced from 7.1 to 6.7 trillion (minus 6%, about 9.6% considering inflation of 4%), education by 5.4%, "national economy" from 4.92 to 4.62 trillion. The "Economic Development and Innovative Economy" program will be reduced by about 30% in 2027, and by 2029 by half compared to 2026. We have already discussed some of these data in the material on redistribution for the benefit of security, so here we will dwell on those areas that were not mentioned there. Agriculture loses the most: the state program will receive 261.7 billion rubles compared to 402.2 billion according to updated data as of September 1, 2026. The reduction is 140.4 billion, or 34.9%, corresponding to inflation of more than 37%. 6.36 billion is allocated to small agricultural businesses annually compared to 14.54 billion in 2026, support for potato and vegetable producers is reduced from 3.5 to 2.5 billion, wine production from 3.96 to 2.9 billion. State workers are guaranteed a wage hike of 6.8% in 2027, 6.9% in 2028 and 7.1% in 2029, but only for certain categories of workers in federal institutions. With inflation of 4%, real growth will be around 2.7-3%. Teachers, doctors and employees of regional institutions will depend on the capabilities of their regions. And they are limited: the total deficit of the regional budgets in 2025 reached a peak of 1.5 trillion, in the first half of 2026 it grew by another 134.2 billion, the budgets of 66 subjects are in deficit. The situation is most difficult in the Jewish autonomous regions, Vologda, Kemerovo and Irkutsk. Against this background, Senator Artmonov's initiative to close unused hospitals seems like a logical continuation of the savings we wrote about.