In September, the occupiers-controlled “media” began to broadcast yet another “optimistic announcement” performed by the criminal “speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov and “minister of finance” Irina Kiviko, about how “Crimea could become a non-subsidized region in 5-7 years”, and that “the republic’s budget is growing by 30-40% annually”, and that its revenues “have increased to 130 billion rubles in 2024”.
However, the reality of “steady growth” is somewhat different, even if we use the “official figures” of that very fake “government”.
In 2017, the “republican budget” was about 158 billion rubles, in 2019 about 154 billion rubles, of which “local funds” were about 106 billion, in 2020 it was declared at about 158 billion. Let us recall that in 2019, the dollar cost an average of 63 rubles, and in 2017 – from 56 rubles.
In 2021, the “republican budget” was declared at 192 billion rubles, in 2023 at 297 billion, in 2024 at 200 billion, and for 2025 at 223 billion, with an average dollar exchange rate of about 85 rubles, and only the “official” inflation of the aggressor in 2022 was 11%, in 2023 it was 7.4%, and in 2024 – 9%.
Thus, the formal size of the “republican budget” has grown by the 40% declared by Konstantinov, but not “annually”, but over eight years, given that during these years the total inflation of the ruble was 63%, and the average annual dollar exchange rate rose from 56 to 85 rubles.
Thus, no “budget growth” occurred, and the “increase in republican revenues” from 100 to 130 billion is also due to such “growth drivers” as inflation and the fall of the ruble.
However, fruitless frantic attempts by collaborators to maximize the “tax” pressure on the population and the remains of business have also taken place in the last two years, after the previously described reduction in “funding of federal programs” by about one hundred billion annually.
At the same time, for the “subsidy-free budget”, Konstantinov sets such conditions as “restoration of air traffic and resumption of full-fledged work of the tourism sector”, which is perceived exclusively as a propaganda mantra.
Until 2022, illegal air traffic and the same Konstantinov’s stories about the alleged “record 9 million tourists” did not affect the maximum “subsidy budget”.
This has a simple explanation: in fact, all the “recreational activities” on the peninsula cannot be an “economic driver” in principle, and are only a source for laundering those same “subsidy funds” by those same Crimean collaborators.
