A record Russian budget will boost defense spending, shoring up Putin’s support ahead of election
15 November 2023
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The draft budget "is about getting the war sorted in Ukraine and about being ready for a military confrontation with the West in perpetuity," said Richard Connolly, an expert on Russia's military and economy at the Royal United Services Institute in London. "This amounts to the wholesale remilitarization of Russian society," he added.