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Russia to increase propaganda spending to historic high of $27 million per week

The draft budget for 2025 allocates RUB 137.2 billion (US$1.42 billion) for state propaganda.

The Channel One Russia, which has lost nearly a quarter of its audience since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, will receive a subsidy of RUB 6 billion to fill its broadcasting schedule. Organising the state propaganda system in the occupied regions of Ukraine will cost the budget RUB 7 billion. As a separate item, RUB 8.4 billion have been earmarked for media projects under the presidential administration, focusing on the "informational and explanatory support" of Vladimir Putin's initiatives on the Internet.

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