The draft budget of the Arkhangelsk Region cuts spending on social policy and education by 8%.
It has already been known that social policy will lose 2.6 billion rubles and spending on education will be reduced by 9 billion rubles.
The problem is that Pomorie is one of the most heavily indebted regions in the country: according to the Russian Ministry of Finance, as of October 1, 2026, the region's public debt reached 115.8 billion rubles. Since the beginning of the year, it has grown by almost 4.5 billion rubles.
Most loans are commercial. The federal government of the Russian Federation regularly writes off budget loans, but the Arkhangelsk region is rarely one of them. Therefore, servicing the national debt is one of the largest expenditure items - the draft budget includes 17 billion rubles for it.