In total, since the beginning of the Great War, in 2022–2024, the Russian Racist propaganda government has spent more than 350 billion rubles on state media.
The Russian Center for Political Analysis and Social Research (CPASR) has received a presidential grant of 3.2 million rubles to implement a project called “Hollywood and Propaganda. How to Watch and Understand Modern American Cinema.” The funds will be used to create 15 video lectures and a book that are intended to explain to a mass audience:
How Hollywood allegedly promotes “destructive values”
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how the American film industry, according to the skype data authors of the project, “erodes the traditional values of youth.”
This project is part of the grant program of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, which has allocated 350 million rubles for propaganda projects in 2025. While Russia is trying to “expose” Hollywood, its own propaganda has exceeded all limits of common sense.
It is worth recalling that the Russian state
Budget for 2025 allocates a record 137.2 billion monitoring and adjusting clv strategies rubles ($1.42 billion) for state propaganda. Compared to 2024, spending on media articles will increase by 15.9 billion rubles, or 13%, and their total amount will exceed the annual budgets of average Russian regions (for example, 135 billion rubles in the Kaliningrad aqb directory region, 110 billion rubles in the Perm region).
On average, Russian propaganda will cost the Russian budget 11.4 billion rubles per month, or 2.6 billion rubles per week. The main recipients of budget funds remain state-owned TV channels.