The regional authorities refuse to raise the salaries of the officials in order to balance the budgets for 2027. In the Rostov region, the 4% increase was canceled back in July, and in the draft budget for the period of the next three years, no attachment to wages was established. At the same time, the region reduced the number of government authorities. The budget deficit for 2027 will be 29.66 billion rubles.
In the Moscow region, the decision to suspend indexation of civil servants' salaries will remain in force until 2028, which will save more than 500 million rubles for the budget. In the Volgograd region, it is planned to extend the existing freeze on officials' salaries until that date. The corresponding bill has already been submitted to the local legislative assembly, the current restrictions will expire on January 1, 2027.
In the Nizhny Novgorod region, it was also proposed to abandon the attachment to wages next year and temporarily freeze the provision of housing subsidies and compensation to sanatoriums. In addition, it is planned to reduce expenses for the governor's office by 10%. In the Stavropol territory, the freeze on the salaries of officials will continue even longer - until 2030.
Savings also affects social spending, but the solutions vary by region. In the Rostov region, they plan to link the payments to the index by 4% every year. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the project provides a freeze on part of the payments to veterans, pensioners, large families and the poor.