While whole regions of #Russia lack basic roads and indoor plumbing, the Russian government now spends more on just one of their #propaganda projects than on entire individual republics of the "Russian Federation".
Last year, #Kremlin mouthpiece #RT, run by propagandist Margarita #Simonyan, spent a record-breaking 31.7 billion #rubles (approx. €320 million) pushing state narratives abroad—more than the entire annual #budgets of some Russian regions, including Ingushetia and Kalmykia.