The defense budget for 2023 was $75.2 billion while 2024’s was $115 billion. For 2025 it will be $140 billion followed by $128 billion in 2026 and $126.6 billion in 2027. In 2023 Russia expected its ...

Putin called 2025 the "year of the Defender of the Motherland" in his New Year's Eve address on Tuesday.

The tsarist Russian army, having exhausted the Prussians, was on the march and threatening Berlin. But then the unthinkable happened: Empress Elizabeth of Russia died, and her Prussophile successor, ...

from $59 billion in 2022 to $109 billion in 2023, and $126.8 billion set aside in 2025, when defense will make up 32.5% of Russia's federal budget, up from 28.3% this year. While soaring defense ...

Under the proposed plan, a quarter of the revenue will go to Russia’s federal budget, while the rest will remain with ... plans to increase traffic fines by an average of 1.5 times. In 2023, regional ...