Secrecy and military expenditures in the Russian budget

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6357751
AutoresErik Andermo (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Martin Kragh (0000-0002-1917-0136, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen36
Número4
Páginas297-322
Fecha de publicación2020-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPost-Soviet Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1060-586X • E-ISSN: 1938-2855
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1060586x.2020.1738816
OpenAlexW3014002343
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

This article proposes a transparent method for collecting, structuring, and analyzing Russian budget data on defense and security-related expenditures. A precise answer to the question of how big Russia’s defense expenditures are is impossible because of issues concerning secrecy and accounting principles. We circumvent this challenge by constructing lower and upper bounds for Russia’s military expenditure, showing that depending on the chosen measure these have increased from the range of 10.3–31.2% of federal expenditures in 2011 to 12.9–35.4% in 2018. The analysis also yields additional insights into the concept of secrecy in the Russian budget; we show that 39 out of 96 subchapters in the Russian budget contain secret expenditures, many of which are not nominally related to defense or security, and that secret expenditures increased as a share of total expenditures from 12% to 17% between 2011 and 2019

Business · Computer security · Economics · Federal budget · Fiscal year · Political science · Public economics · Secrecy · Structuring · Computer Science · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy