An article on “ensuring network sovereignty” has been included in the draft Russian budget for 2025–2027. Expenditures on it will amount to 10 billion rubles annually. Previously, expenses on preparing the Russian Internet for isolation were included in the “Information Security” project of the “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” program. On average, they amounted to about 7 billion rubles per year, said senator and co-author of the law on the sovereign Runet Andrei Klishas.

Another 30 billion rubles of budget money will be allocated as a subsidy to the radio frequency service of Roskomnadzor. The explanation says that the funds will go to “achieving the results of the federal project aimed at ensuring network sovereignty.”

At the same time, the authorities will increase funding for programs to spread propaganda on the Internet. Thus, the Institute for Internet Development will receive 25 billion rubles to promote “spiritual and moral values.”

In addition, in early September, it was reported that Roskomnadzor would be allocated 59 billion rubles to combat VPN. This money will be used to update the technical means of countering threats (TMTS), which are installed on the networks of telecom operators and allow blocking sites in the RuNet, as well as methods of bypassing censorship. According to the authorities, the new servers and software will block access to 96% of all VPNs in Russia by 2030.

Director of the Internet Protection Society Mikhail Klimarev compared these annual expenses with the budgets of some cities - for example, Tolyatti (11 billion rubles) and Taganrog (13 billion). "With this money, it was possible to build schools, hospitals... If they continue to import this equipment and spend such huge amounts of money, then, of course, they will break the Internet sooner or later," he said.

President Vladimir Putin demanded the creation of a "sovereign RuNet", which will operate only in Russia and be completely controlled by the state, in 2017. At the end of January 2024, a large-scale failure occurred in the .ru domain zone, which left millions of users in Russia and abroad without access to sites. Experts from Network Freedoms noted that the reason could have been an experiment to test the operation of the Russian Internet in isolation conditions.