Russia recorded in 2024 a budget deficit exceeding three trillion rubles for the third consecutive year, soaring to 3.49 trillion rubles ($34.39 billion), according to the country's finance ministry.

The journalists' list includes nine generals and 500 officers ranked lieutenant colonel or higher. BBC News Russian notes that actual losses are significantly higher, estimating that their analysis ...

Experts who spoke to VOA Russian note this has become a steady trend that the Kremlin has so far been unable to reverse, even with larger injections of cash into state-owned media outlets.