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Until recently, regions promised families of those killed in the war between 1 and 3 million rubles, but now about twelve of them have cut, canceled or postponed such payments, and four have done so in the past two months.
In the Ulyanovsk region, the payment for a death in February 2026 was reduced from one million to 500 thousand rubles, and on April 27, Governor Alexei Russkich signed a decree cutting it to 50 thousand. In just three months, the payment dropped 20 times. In February, Kemerovo region reduced it by three times, from 3 million to 1 million, and Omsk region by half, from one million to 500 thousand. From April 1, half is paid for a death in the Irkutsk region, 500 thousand instead of a million, and there they also reduced the payment for an injury five times, and the authorities stated the reason as a lack of money. Kirov also cut the payments from 1 million to 500 thousand.
In May 2026, Shkurtostan reduced the payment from 500 to 100 thousand rubles, fivefold. At the same time, the republic leads in Russia in the number of detected deaths; According to independent estimates, there are at least 6,961 of them.
The Orenburg region and Khakassia abolished the payment completely. The Orenburg Region stopped paying the families of the dead after June 30, 2026, and Khakassia did so before anyone else. The 1.1 million payment program in Khakassia was launched in September 2022, and in November 2025, the head of the Khakas branch of the Popular Front, Ksenia Buganova, announced that they would stop paying. According to a source in the government of the Republic, the reason was the difficult budgetary situation.
The fall added four more regions. On September 30, it became known that the Saratov region reduces payments 10 times, from 1 million to 100 thousand, and the new rules came into force on November 1. On October 15, the decree of the governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev completely canceled the payment in the Samara region. On October 21, the government of the Smolensk region cut it from 1 million to 700 thousand, and the next day the authorities of the Stavropol Territory postponed the calculation of such payments to 2027.
Explanations everywhere come down to money.