The State Duma approved the new budget. This material (information) is produced and distributed by the bell's foreign agent or concerns the activities of the bell's foreign agent. 18+ The State Duma today adopted in first reading the three-year budget for the years 2027-2029. We discussed here in detail the parameters of the new budget. The main thing about this is that it is a military budget - Russia will spend 44% of all budget expenditures on the military and special services in 2027. And also in an irremediable deficit: the government actually admitted its inability to control military spending by planning a 40% increase next year, which actually already happened in 2026. To finance the war he had no choice but to further increase the taxes and fees on the population and businesses. and an increase in the expensive public debt, the service cost of which will reach 9.4% of budget expenditures. Why is this important? This was not reflected in the release of the State Duma, but the vote was not unanimous - 372 deputies voted in favor, 51 abstained. The Communist Party faction did not vote "yes" in a disciplined manner. Its leader Gennady Zyuganov fulfilled the mandate of the symbolic opposition today - he stated that in the war "every second ruble is burned and burned", and in the budget "there is a huge hole, roughly more than five trillion every three years. The question is how we will fix it."

The State Duma approved the new budget. This material (information) is produced and distributed by the bell's foreign agent or concerns the activities of the bell's foreign agent. 18+ The State Duma today adopted in first reading the three-year budget for the years 2027-2029. We discussed here in detail the parameters of the new budget. The main thing about this is that it is a military budget - Russia will spend 44% of all budget expenditures on the military and special services in 2027. And also in an irremediable deficit: the government actually admitted its inability to control military spending by planning a 40% increase next year, which actually already happened in 2026. To finance the war he had no choice but to further increase the taxes and fees on the population and businesses. and an increase in the expensive public debt, the service cost of which will reach 9.4% of budget expenditures. Why is this important? This was not reflected in the release of the State Duma, but the vote was not unanimous - 372 deputies voted in favor, 51 abstained. The Communist Party faction did not vote "yes" in a disciplined manner. Its leader Gennady Zyuganov fulfilled the mandate of the symbolic opposition today - he stated that in the war "every second ruble is burned and burned", and in the budget "there is a huge hole, roughly more than five trillion every three years. The question is how we will fix it."