A wave of layoffs of public sector workers is spreading across the country. A week ago I wrote that at least 24 areas were affected by layoffs of doctors, teachers, doctors, security guards and even officials. Now this figure has increased. Now, according to my calculations, extensive cuts in civil servants have begun or are planned in 34 regions. Orphanages are closing in the Arkhangelsk region. Nurses, cleaners and servers are being laid off at the Pudoz Central District Hospital in Karelia. In the city of Zarhani in the Panza district, reserve Olympic sports school coaches are fired, since the management decided not to allocate money for training children over the age of 18. Foreign language teachers are fired in Chelyabinsk. and so on. A full list of all regions is here. There is only one reason. It is a better and more accurate description than others by Alexander Melishev, deputy director of the development and project activities department in the city of Zarhani: "Sanctions, like that, the general economic situation - all this is felt. And these consequences fall on the shoulders of the common people. This is a reality that must be accepted in order to understand why such decisions are made. These are the consequences of a change in the economic model and the external circumstances." The reality that needs to be accepted is that the country has clearly set its priorities - the Kremlin plans to fight until it loses its pulse. But at the same time, the authorities, of course, hope that their pulse will stop last, and if this means cutting off thousands of civil servants who gathered at the polling stations to vote for United Russia, then so be it. By the end of the fifth year of the war, the Russian budget fully feels the consequences of the enormous costs of the so-called. 66 regions of Russia completed the first half of 2026 with a budget deficit. However, it was decided to spare the people - further proof that this government has never cared about the welfare of Russians. Some people just fire civil servants.

A wave of layoffs of public sector workers is spreading across the country. A week ago I wrote that at least 24 areas were affected by layoffs of doctors, teachers, doctors, security guards and even officials. Now this figure has increased. Now, according to my calculations, extensive cuts in civil servants have begun or are planned in 34 regions. Orphanages are closing in the Arkhangelsk region. Nurses, cleaners and servers are being laid off at the Pudoz Central District Hospital in Karelia. In the city of Zarhani in the Panza district, reserve Olympic sports school coaches are fired, since the management decided not to allocate money for training children over the age of 18. Foreign language teachers are fired in Chelyabinsk. and so on. A full list of all regions is here. There is only one reason. It is a better and more accurate description than others by Alexander Melishev, deputy director of the development and project activities department in the city of Zarhani: "Sanctions, like that, the general economic situation - all this is felt. And these consequences fall on the shoulders of the common people. This is a reality that must be accepted in order to understand why such decisions are made. These are the consequences of a change in the economic model and the external circumstances." The reality that needs to be accepted is that the country has clearly set its priorities - the Kremlin plans to fight until it loses its pulse. But at the same time, the authorities, of course, hope that their pulse will stop last, and if this means cutting off thousands of civil servants who gathered at the polling stations to vote for United Russia, then so be it. By the end of the fifth year of the war, the Russian budget fully feels the consequences of the enormous costs of the so-called. 66 regions of Russia completed the first half of 2026 with a budget deficit. However, it was decided to spare the people - further proof that this government has never cared about the welfare of Russians. Some people just fire civil servants.