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Proof: Russia Raises 2027 Military Spending by 27%, Budget Documents Show

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T20:13:03Z","headline":"Russia Raises 2027 Military Spending by 27%, Budget Documents Show","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"moscowtimes","url":"https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/28/russia-raises-2027-military-spending-by-27-budget-documents-show-a93810","v":1}

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d7bb7cdc2365714bc03681bd474af5e1736dd342583935aabbd1fc33688b63d0

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969050, mined 2026-09-28 20:54 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 20:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 20:30 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d7bb7cdc2365.json prints d7bb7cdc2365714bc03681bd474af5e1736dd342583935aabbd1fc33688b63d0. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-d7bb7cdc2365.json and headline-d7bb7cdc2365.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-d7bb7cdc2365.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.