Moscow allocated 308 million rubles for public sector salaries in Chechnya.

The Russian government has ordered 308 million rubles to be allocated to Chechnya to increase public sector wages and 300 million rubles to develop the economy.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," in 2023, the Russian Ministry of Finance initiated a draft resolution requiring the heads of Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia to be personally accountable for budget deficits and account for expenditures under threat of losing their subsidies. This initiative seems rather questionable in terms of implementation, analysts noted.

The government has allocated additional funding "to maintain budget balance" in several regions, including Chechnya, the Cabinet press service reported today.

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Southern Russian republics rank at the bottom of the wage inequality rankings

In Ingushetia, which ranked last in the high-salary rankings, only 2.4% of the population earns more than 100,000 rubles per month, while 58.6% earn less than 30,000 rubles. North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, Kalmykia, and Chechnya also rank at the bottom of the rankings.

Other recipients of support include the Kemerovo Region, the Saratov Region, and Karelia. "Funding will come from the federal budget and the government's reserve fund. The funds will be used to meet priority and socially significant expenditure obligations of the regions," the government website states.

According to the text of the order dated December 23, which is attached to the publication, 608 million rubles have been allocated to Chechnya.

"The condition for providing a subsidy to the budget of the Chechen Republic is the adoption by the highest executive body of the Chechen Republic of an obligation to ensure the use of the subsidy to finance the expenses of the consolidated budget of the Chechen Republic: a) to increase the salaries of public sector employees - 308,000 thousand rubles; b) to support socially significant infrastructure projects that provide for the development of the real sector of the economy and an increase in the tax potential of the Chechen Republic - 300,000 thousand rubles," the document states.

In 2024, the total volume of transfers to Chechnya amounted to 121.6 billion rubles

In 2024 alone, Chechnya received 121 billion rubles from the federal budget, economist Natalya Zubarevich previously indicated. "In 2024, the total volume of transfers to Chechnya amounted to 121.6 billion rubles, and all consolidated budget revenues amounted to 158.8 billion. Kadyrov's fund has no relation to the budget; Chechen businesses throughout the country contribute money to it," Zubarevich told the "Caucasian Knot."

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Social media users inquire about the source of Akhmat Kadyrov's charity spending

Chechen Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Akhmat Kadyrov donated more than 18 million rubles to the families of fire victims. Social media users inquired when he managed to earn such sums.

In 2021, Dagestan and Chechnya are among the largest recipients of budget transfers in Russia. These data follow from the planned budget figures, in particular, on subsidies to equalize the budgetary provision of regions, the total amount of which amounted to 718 billion rubles, RBK reported.

Chechnya effectively lives off subsidies, Ramzan Kadyrov admitted. In January 2022, he stated that the Russian government annually allocates 300 billion rubles for the maintenance of Chechnya, which "would not be able to survive even a month" without support from the federal center. Kadyrov noted that in 2021, Chechnya was allocated 375 billion rubles, but only 140 billion relates to the consolidated budget of Chechnya, and the remaining funds were directed to the maintenance of republican branches of federal government bodies, the Pension Fund, and Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund.

Kadyrov only correctly indicated the volume of interbudget transfers, while data on the extent to which Chechnya's budget expenditures are covered by its own tax revenues is effectively classified, economists noted.