Putin’s mock parliament passes 2023 budget with a 1/3 increase in spending on police and other “law enforcement agencies”; at the same time price of natural gas for Russia’s population was increased by 10% and a law was proposed to set the income tax at 30% for those who left Russia to work and live abroad.

The regime is becoming more expensive to run. That’s good. The west must keep clamping down on everything that gives Putin revenues, and his fascistic government will implode.