Nevertheless, all these additional trillions of rubles in 2022 did not led to a significant increase in arms manufacturing. For instance,
total manufacturing rate in Russia for the period running from January to November 2022
was 99.2 percent when compared to the same period in 2021.
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However, the manufacturing of electricity in Russia was only 100.8 percent (in billions of kilowatts per hour) of production in 2021, which also confirms the presumption that
no significant increase in Russian arms manufacturing transpired in 2022 (
Rosstat.gov.ru, December 28, 2022).
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Moreover, at least one of the leading Russian state-owned defense corporations, Roscosmos, confirmed that it did not fully execute its contracts in 2022 (
Vedomosti, December 21, 2022). This reflects the notion that
increasing arms manufacturing remains challenging for the Russian authorities.