The move came as Russia s Central Bank on Friday raised its key lending rate for the fourth time in half a year in an effort to bring down surging inflation.
Russia is keeping an unprecedented one-third of its budget spending out of the public eye, a stark measure of how a year of war against Ukraine has redrawn government finances and economic priorities.
Russia's defence spending was up nearly 40% in the first four months of the year, according to preliminary data released by the finance ministry on Wednesday, almost three months into Moscow's large-scale military campaign in Ukraine.
As military expenditure worldwide reached a record level in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, the US, China and India were the top three spenders, according to a report by Stockholm Peace Research Institute today.
La nivelul anului 2020, din cele 30 de state membre NATO, doar 12 state au alocat minimum 2% din PIB. Printre acestea se află și România care, cu o alocare reprezentând 2,3% din PIB, a fost pe poziția a patra, la.