Budget 2025: how much will Russians spend on maintaining Putin?

At the end of last year it was planned that this expense item would remain unchanged

The maintenance of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration in 2025 could cost taxpayers almost 31 billion rubles. This amount is included in the draft federal budget for 2025, Vorstka noted.

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Costs of maintaining Putin outpace the growth of budget revenues as a whole

This is 25.5% more than in 2024, when 24.6 billion rubles were allocated for the work of the president and administration. At the same time, at the end of last year, when parliament adopted the budget for the current year, it was planned that in 2025 spending on Putin and the Presidential Administration would increase by only 0.02%.

This increase in expenses for maintaining the president is not comparable with the growth of the state budget itself - it is expected that in 2025 it will grow by 10.67% - to 28 trillion 386 billion rubles.

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In addition, the increase in spending on Putin and the Presidential Administration in 2025 could be five times faster than predicted inflation: in early September, analysts surveyed by the Bank of Russia expected that inflation next year would be about 4.8%.

Photo: Vladimir Putin at the Russian Energy Week in Moscow. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Kremlin via REUTERS

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