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In reply to the discussion: Russia: Constitutional Court Upholds ‘Foreign Agents’ Law [View all]The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)Five billions is roughly forty times the annual appropriation it receives from the government in recent years, and this is larger than it previously enjoyed. Reported expenditures by the group in Ukraine have run about three millions a year recently, and it is required to report accurately.
The nearest thing to a 'source' for the five billions number I am aware of seems to be a statement from Ms. Nuland that something like that amount had been put into Ukraine and was not going to be let go to waste. It seems that this statement is meant to indicate a rough total of all aid from the U.S. government to the Ukraine government since its independence in 1991, which does not seem an outlandish figure as a total over that period, nor in relation to economic activity in Ukraine. The GDP of Ukraine has run around a hundred seventy billions a year lately, having risen rapidly from about fifty billions yearly in its first decade of independence.