Monitoring Damage Caused by Foreign Sources

Abstract

The issue of monitoring the damage caused to the Russian Federation, its subjects, municipalities, citizens and organizations by foreign sources during a Special Military Operation is one of the urgent and little-explored problems. The key to this monitoring was
Decree No. 335 of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 19, 2025, which charged the prosecutor’s office with organizing, collecting, verifying and systematizing information about the specified damage, as well as maintaining an appropriate Register. The new monitoring mechanism is aimed at solving the problem of centralized damage control. However, it is unclear from the Decree what actions the state intends to take after determining the extent of the damage caused. The foreign policy orientation of the new monitoring mechanism is not excluded. The register will make it possible to appeal to documented information about the damage caused during the international dialogue. Monitoring is carried out at all levels of public authority, while the significant burden of assessing and compensating for damage falls precisely on the subjects of the Russian Federation that have been affected by military operations and terrorist attacks. The article analyzes the regulatory, methodological and judicial aspects of damage assessment and compensation, which led to the conclusion that the state is building a systematic work in the field of monitoring damage caused to the Russian Federation, its subjects, municipalities, citizens and organizations by foreign sources. At the same time, the subjects of the Federation have not yet developed a uniform approach to determining such damage. The differences in its assessment and the procedure for compensation are due to the different scales of the damage suffered, as well as the different levels of socio-economic development of the regions and the sustainability of their budgets. In this regard, there is a need to improve the regulatory and organizational aspects of monitoring and compensation for damage caused by foreign sources, as well as to increase the coverage of this process in the public information field.