How Russia finances the Ukrainian rebel territories
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| Funding of the anti-Ukrainian forces in Donbass According to intelligence service information, the money for the “terrorists” – as Ukraine calls them – or the “United Forces of New Russia”, respectively – as they are called in the occupied territories – mainly comes from two sources: ► From “Non-Government Funds” of the Russian Federation that, upon close inspection, turn out to be very close to the government in Moscow. ► From former Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs who fled to Russia after the downfall of the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, and who are now working to destabilize Ukraine. “Individual persons or organizations pay for their preferred units”. These funds are coordinated and topped up by the Kremlin or the local Russian intelligence in the, effectively, controlled east of Ukraine. The real numbers could be even more revealing. BILD talked to an employee of the city council of Stakhanov, a city in the occupied region of Luhansk with 77,000 inhabitants. She revealed that merely 5 to 7 percent of the city budget stems from taxes and the “Republic’s” means. More than 90 percent of the roubles available in December 2015 were “imported from outside”. The civil servant can only explain this by assuming that Russian money was paid to the city.  Salaries in Ukraine cost Russia one billion euros per year According to BILD’s calculations, Russia has to spend approximately 79 million euros per month in order to pay the public service salaries and the pensions in the controlled territories.  This corresponds to 0.6 % of yearly expenses in the Russian state budget. However, these expenses are probably only one part of Russia’s overall expenses for the supported regions in the east of Ukraine. Subsidized gas, fuel, oil, and food, humanitarian payments in kind and also the ammunition for continuing the war against Ukraine should also amount to several hundred millions euros per year. To sum up, it was apparently more than “foresight” by Vladimir Putin when he called the concerned areas “New Russia” in 2014. Taking a closer look at the welfare situation in the “rebel areas”, they are best described as a colony of Russia that was established and is kept alive by Moscow. http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-konflikt/russia-finances-donbass-44151166.bild.html |
| How US finances the Syrian rebel territories is the most interesting subject. Although we all know how exactly US is financing them. |
| moni 17 Яну 2016 14:24 Мнения: 3,385 От: Bulgaria Скрий: Име,IP "How US finances the Syrian rebel territories is the most interesting subject. Although we all know how exactly US is financing them." Можно показат? Източника, така да се каже, мое ли?  |
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