INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
widely condemned by the international community.Last year, the four regions received some 513 billion rubles ($5.8 billion) in subsidies
from the Russian state budget, according to Forbes.In 2024, those subsidies will reportedly drop to 303 billion rubles ($3.4 billion) as the
Forbes writes.Between 80% and 90% of the regional budgets in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson were subsidized by Moscow
subject to change depending on the military situation.As Forbes writes, in 2023 the Donetsk region received 37% more in subsidies than
planned while also doubling its own revenues from 25 billion rubles to 51 billion rubles.Subsidies are not the only source of income for the
billion rubles ($10.2 billion) and is partly financed by 26 Russian regions including Moscow.
