Putin's pre-election social payments may cost $6.75 billion, add to inflation - NewsBreak

A one-off pay-check in social payments to Russian soldiers and pensioners, announced by the Russ President Vladimir Putin on last weekend, ahead of an election next month could lead to a $6.75 billion in additional budgetary spending, a senior lawmaker in Duma, Andrei Makarov, had said this week. In point...