Following a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak on September 8, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development were instructed to "ensure budgetary allocations to increase the wages of workers in the budgetary sphere of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia and civil servants of the Republic of South Ossetia."
The draft budget proposes to reserve up to 1.25 billion rubles for these purposes in 2021 and 1.17 billion rubles in 2022–2023 (a total of about 3.6 billion rubles) until the relevant decisions are taken by the Russian government.