April 8 (Reuters) - Russia is considering raising its base price for calculating the wheat export tax to 17,000 roubles ($212.23) per tonne from 15,000 roubles per tonne, the Vedomosti daily reported, citing two unnamed sources in exporting companies.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Russia-considering-raising-calculation-price-for-wheat-export-duty-Vedomosti-cites-sources--43454757/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230408

April 8 (Reuters) - Russia is considering raising its base price for calculating the wheat export tax to 17,000 roubles ($212.23) per tonne from 15,000 roubles per tonne, the Vedomosti daily reported, citing two unnamed sources in exporting companies.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Russia-considering-raising-calculation-price-for-wheat-export-duty-Vedomosti-cites-sources--43454757/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230408

A Russian company today said it will offer five million roubles (£58,000) in cash to the first soldiers who destroy or capture Western tanks in Ukraine after the Kremlin vowed that any allied armoured vehicles shipped to Kyiv would 'burn'.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11691539/Russian-company-offers-cash-reward-troops-destroy-capture-Western-tanks-Ukraine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

He traveled by car, carrying just one sports bag and about 170,000 roubles (approximately $2,300), which he gave to the soldiers manning a checkpoint out of the city.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/ukraine-russia-war-nonviolent-digital-resistance-telegram/673420/?utm_source=feed

However, a Reuters budget analysis shows Moscow will spend a combined 9.4 trillion roubles ($140 billion) on defense and security this year alone – nearly a third of the budget – meaning less money for health, education and research.

Source: https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/russia-may-hike-taxes-as-military-spending-oil-price-weigh-on-budget

That was up from 162.2 billion roubles in 2021, according to filings on the Interfax news agency’s SPARK database of Russian companies.

Source: https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/russias-vkusvill-to-trial-new-store-formats-alongside-delivery-push

They show that in the first half of 2023 alone, Russia spent 12%, or 600 billion roubles, more on defence than the 4.98 trillion roubles ($54 billion) it had originally targeted for 2023.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/08/04/russia-doubles-2023-defence-spending-plan-as-war-costs-soar/

They show that in the first half of 2023 alone, Russia spent 12%, or 600 billion roubles, more on defence than the 4.98 trillion roubles ($54 billion) it had originally targeted for 2023.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/08/04/russia-doubles-2023-defence-spending-plan-as-war-costs-soar/