world
June 20, 2021
Putin promises billions in public spending ahead of polls
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin proposed on Saturday at his United Russia party congress billions of rubles in spending ahead of September parliamentary polls that could see the deeply unpopular party struggle.Addressing several hundred of his mostly mask-wearing and socially-distanced loyalists in a Moscow convention centre as the capital set a pandemic high for new Covid cases for the second straight day, Putin proposed deploying billions towards social support.This included 50 billion...