About 25% of Russia’s budget goes to military expenses only from private papers, and with all costs, Russia spent about a third of all the money an power unit. In an interview with “Radio Liberty” said researcher of the Institute for the economy in transition to them. Gaidar , Sergei Zhavoronkov.
“I remind you that we have closed the budget has increased from 2012 from 10% to 25%. It is obvious that these costs are funded and the war in Donbass, war in Syria, these costs are quite substantial. We have only the so-called defense spends more than three trillion rubles — this is actually the fifth part of expenses of the budget, if you include law enforcement, then it will be five trillion rubles is actually one third of the budget, completely wild numbers. These proportions in no any developed country in the world. For example, military spending in the US make up 12% of the budget in European countries typically account for about 6-7% of the budget. Yes, it is very expensive.
But in fact in the view of Putin, he’s probably right, most importantly the presence of the army efficient, ready to fight is the only trump card that is the Putin regime on the international stage. Because no attractive vision of the future, no ideology, no economic success or economic power of Russia to show the world not. And she is able to demonstrate — it’s really quite a powerful army, ready to fight. This army Putin intends to blackmail the entire world for about the same logic as it did the Soviet Union. Putin’s agents in Western countries will cry, as in Soviet times, shouted that it was better to be red than dead, explaining the need for endless concessions to Putin, the fact that it is a very dangerous man, if we make him angry, he nuclear button press.” he said.
