The head of the analytical company «ProZerno», Vladimir Petrichenko, said that if the shutdown of the ports of the Azov and Black Seas continues, Russia will be able to export only 39 million tons of grain instead of 59 million. In his estimate, up to 20 million tons will remain without buyers and may sit in storage for at least until next year.

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Problems with transporting agricultural products via the Black Sea have so far not led to a food crisis on the scale of spring 2022, but they have already caused the fastest price increase since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index rose by 13.1% in Q3 and reached its highest level since Q1 2022, when it gained 19.5%.

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By the end of September, Europe’s gas storage facilities are 71% full, compared with a five-year average of 87%, and in Germany — about 57%. Bloomberg пишет that the old market model for gas storage is losing money in this context.

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Bloomberg reported that after the EU lifted sanctions on Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, other wealthy Russian businessmen began to study their experience of challenging the restrictions more closely. According to the agency’s survey, many do not expect sanctions to be lifted quickly, but at least two intend to use Fridman’s example in their own lawsuits.

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Since the start of 2025, Romania has raised about 604 million dollars from thousands of private investors through a government bond program with higher yields for blood donors, Bloomberg writes. Blood donors in the country can buy such securities with a yield of more than 7% annually — about one percentage point higher than for other retail investors.

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Nucor Corp., the largest steel producer in North America, imported at least 18 shipments of pig iron from six Brazilian suppliers over three years. These shipments accounted for about 5% of the company’s average annual pig iron purchases; Bloomberg writes that Brazilian authorities linked the suppliers to charcoal purchases in camps where working conditions fall under the local definition of modern slavery.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an article for Bloomberg, called for a sweeping reform of the UN: abolish the veto in the Security Council, abandon permanent membership, and strengthen the powers of the General Assembly. He called this the central element of the reform.

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Fear of a possible mobilization, which Vladimir Putin is believed to be able to announce after the State Duma elections, has also gripped representatives of the Russian elite. Bloomberg writes that officials in the Kremlin are asking friends and relatives to leave Russia in the coming months and are looking for ways to open bank accounts abroad; according to the agency, recruitment office workers are doing the same.

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Bloomberg writes that Vladimir Putin has demanded that Russian security services ramp up hybrid aggression in European countries supporting Ukraine. European officials and counterintelligence officers cited by the agency fear that sabotage is becoming more frequent and reckless, and that civilian casualties are only a matter of time.

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