Waging war is expensive. This is apparently noticeable in Russia at the moment. The economy wants to take countermeasures accordingly.
Moscow - While a four-day week is increasingly being discussed in Germany, the world of work in Russia is going in the opposite direction due to the war. According to information from British intelligence services, citizens in Russia are being called upon to make sacrifices because of the Ukraine war. This refers above all to the work, as the British Ministry of Defense has announced.
For example, state-backed Russian media and business groups have sought approval from the country's Ministry of Economy. They want to introduce a six-day "Soviet-style" week, according to the British Ministry of Defense in its intelligence update. The background to this is the economic challenges posed by the war against Ukraine. However, there is apparently no additional payment for this.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to employees of a helicopter plant in Ulan-Ude. © Vladimir Gerdo/Pool Sputnik Kremlin/AP/dpa
Russia sees economic performance as decisive for the war
On May 21, leading Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan argued that citizens should work two extra hours a day in munitions factories after their regular jobs, the intelligence experts said. A tone is developing in the Russian public that reflects a Soviet sense of social coercion, they say. At the end of the 1920s, a six-day week was introduced in the former Soviet Union. In June 1940, the five-day week was returned.
The Russian leadership is very likely to see economic performance as a decisive factor in victory in the war against Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense in London. Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression, it has regularly published information on the course of the war - citing intelligence information. Moscow accuses London of a disinformation campaign
Unemployment and sanctions hurt Russian economy
According to the report, this group of Russian business representatives sees a longer working week as the key to reducing dependence on other countries and improving Russia's technological and industrial positioning. In addition, since the beginning of the war of aggression, more than one million Russian citizens have left the labour market because they have been transferred to the front or left the country. The hope is that these departures could be compensated for by overtime. A Kremlin expert draws a connection to a lack of mobilization.
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Western sanctions also play a role. Currently, the countries of the European Union are negotiating an eleventh package of sanctions against Russia. Moscow has therefore expanded economic cooperation with other countries, especially Iran. According to Tehran, Iranian exports to Russia have recently risen by 30 percent. The two countries are also cooperating in the energy and financial sectors.
