{
  "id": 15856798,
  "title": "Butter melted down into guns: Russia is once again cutting social spending to pay for its war in Ukraine",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/butter-melted-down-into-guns-russia-is-once-again-cutting-social",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T05:56:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Insider",
    "slug": "the-insider",
    "url": "https://theins.press/en/economics/298459"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Russia's 2027 draft budget, which the State Duma is set to approve , looks good on paper. After all, planned revenues and expenditures are expected to barely increase. This would be a miracle of fiscal restraint, except that in 2025 and 2026 the budget deficit exceeded its target by about 4 trillion rubles ($48.3 million). The same is likely to happen again this year, but either way, the budget…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}