Want it like the 90s? Regional authorities are issuing bonds to cover budget deficits.

Government Ugra заявило about plans to issue bonds for 30 billion rubles: the money is needed to cover the regional budget deficit (last year it amounted to 13,7 billion). It is proposed to place securities at auctions for three consecutive years: 10 billion per year.

There are also plans to issue bonds claimed и Kuzbass (the budget deficit for last year amounted to immediately 70 billion, and at least more 16 billion (this year won't be enough).

With the need to issue bonds for 25 billion rubles faced и Samara region.

Municipal budgets are also forced to take out loans: in open sources NotMoscow found information about bonds Tomsk и Izhevsk.

At the end of last year, about the issue of bonds they said в St. Petersburg, but then they abandoned this idea.

It is curious that Yugra, which has fallen into debt, is one of the leaders in terms of the volume of regional payments when concluding a contract with the Ministry of Defense - 2,2 million rubles.

At the beginning of this year, the Samara region was also among the leaders – there paid on 2,5 million rubles.

Regional payments in Kuzbass have remained among the lowest for the entire duration of the war with Ukraine: currently, they amount to 400 thousand rubles.

Regional authorities had already been taking out bonds before the war. However, Russians still remember how the state defaulted on its bonds in 1998, triggering a default.