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CHAPTER 3 “PROVE THAT
IT IS NOT ALLAH!”
In an interview with Marianna
Maksimovskaya that was aired
on REN TV channel in 2012,
Ramzan Kadyrov declared
that Allah was giving him
money. “Prove that it is not
Allah!” he interrupted the
journalist’s question 81 .
“STOP FEEDING KADYROV”
The share of federal subsidies in the budget of Chechnya
The analysis of Chechnya’s financial situation, however,
shows that the origins of the funds that are flowing into the
republic are far from divine. For all the years that Kadyrov
has been heading the region, allocations from the federal
center have accounted for more than 80 percent of Chechnya’s
budget.
From 2001 to 2014, more than 464 billion rubles were
allocated to Chechnya in the form of grants, subsidies and
donations. Since 2004, the gratuitous grants have been
amounting to around 59 billion rubles per year. In 2007,
when President Putin appointed Kadyrov as president of
Chechnya, the republic’s share in the total amount of transfers
to Russia’s regions reached its highest point 82 .
It is worth noting that these numbers include neither
the federal funds that are being spent in Chechnya directly —
for the construction of government buildings, for example —
nor the expenses of state-controlled companies that operate
on the territory of Chechnya and invest money in the region’s
economy.
Funds that are being allocated to Chechnya for the
purpose of social support of the population are also worth
mentioning. For example, Chechnya is the country’s biggest
recipient of federal funds under maternity certificates.
According to Russia’s Pension Fund, from July 1, 2009, to
September 1, 2013, around 32 billion rubles were transferred
to the republic to cover maternity capitals. The population
growth in the region over this period amounted to some
86,000 people. In comparison, the residents of Moscow,
where population growth over the same period reached
several hundred thousand people, received only 15 billion
rubles under maternity certificates from 2009 to 2013. In
fact, only a part of this enormous amount of money reaches
the republic’s residents.
Photo: Valery Melnikov/Kommersant, Sergey Ponomarev
Source: figures released by the Federal Treasury.
Proportion between non-repayable and irrevocable grants and the budget’s total income.
Grants from
the federal budget,
billion rubles
The share of
non-repayable
contributions
in the republic’s
total income