Classified Federal Spending

The Russian state will spend 666 billion rubles secretly in 2007. According to the IEPP, 9.5% of federal budget spending was classified in 2003. In the draft budget for 2007, it's 12.2%. In absolute figures, secret spending has tripled: from 225.34 billion rubles to 666.12 billion rubles. Secrecy is increasing for national defense spending (45.6% of items classified in 2007, compared to 36.2% in 2003), as well as for security and law enforcement (31.3% compared to 22.4%). There is even some secrecy in social spending categories: 4.7% of items classified in spending on housing and communal services, 2.5% in education spending, 0.25% in culture, cinema, and media, 3.3% in healthcare and sport, and 0.2% in inter-budget transfers.

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