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Secrecy and military expenditures in the Russian budget

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  • Erik Andermo
  • Martin Kragh

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This article proposes a transparent method for collecting, structuring, and analyzing Russian budget data on defense and security-related expenditures. A precise answer to the question of how big Russia’s defense expenditures are is impossible because of issues concerning secrecy and accounting principles. We circumvent this challenge by constructing lower and upper bounds for Russia’s military expenditure, showing that depending on the chosen measure these have increased from the range of 10.3–31.2% of federal expenditures in 2011 to 12.9–35.4% in 2018. The analysis also yields additional insights into the concept of secrecy in the Russian budget; we show that 39 out of 96 subchapters in the Russian budget contain secret expenditures, many of which are not nominally related to defense or security, and that secret expenditures increased as a share of total expenditures from 12% to 17% between 2011 and 2019.

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  • Erik Andermo & Martin Kragh, 2020. "Secrecy and military expenditures in the Russian budget," Post-Soviet Affairs, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(4), pages 297-322, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsaxx:v:36:y:2020:i:4:p:297-322
    DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2020.1738816
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