On Dec. 6, Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov and Kursk region Governor Alexander Khinshtein announced that monthly payments of 65,000 rubles ($808) to refugees displaced by Ukraine’s 2024 incursion would end. Instead, Manturov said the funds, which were roughly equal to last year’s average monthly salary, would be redirected to regional reconstruction efforts from January. The decision immediately triggered protests in Kursk, with several hundred people gathering to demand that the payments continue beyond December. This is not the first time Kursk refugees have called officials to account over the authorities’ inability or unwillingness to help them.
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