About the book: 2018 / Today in the Donbass, the interweaving of military-political, geopolitical and financial strategies is obvious. If Russia’s support for the economy of the DPR and LPR to alleviate the plight of the population in them is carried out at the expense of the Russian budget, then this will reduce the potential of the budget for Russia itself. It is precisely this scenario of a financial burden from Donbass that is being imposed on the Russian Government by external interests and a well-known group of experts and bureaucrats. However, there is an effective way to interact between the economies of the Russian Federation and Donbass.