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«I think it will only get worse.» Mikhail Krutikhin on the situation in Russia’s fuel market
August is always a tense month for the fuel market in Russia. Some refineries go into scheduled maintenance, farmers buy fuel for the harvest, and ordinary citizens head to their summer homes. But this year, fuel is not just rising in price – it’s disappearing across the country. Queues, coupons, limits on sales per person… What’s going on, and what do Ukrainian drones have to do with it? We discussed this with oil and gas analyst Mikhail Krutikhin, partner at the information and consulting agency «RusEnergy.»
#petrol #WarinUkraine #IgorSechin #interview #acrisis #MikhailKrutikhin #oil #Rosneft #Russia
Russia without sanctions: is it possible to start fresh
Let’s imagine for a moment that by some magical means Russia managed to get all sanctions lifted without exception, annexed all the territories Putin talks about, reduced the military budget, and began living as if nothing had happened. This is exactly what a huge number of people living in Russia dream of.
#1990s #Analytics #business #WarinUkraine #state #Donbass #west #greencrossing #investments #foreignersinRussia #China #oil #parallelimport #forecast #Russia #sanctions #rawmaterialseconomy #technology #LaborandCapital #coal
Fruits of the Ministry of Education
We, Soviet children, were incredibly lucky. We went through patriotic education with books by Vasily Bykov and Boris Vasilyev, Samuil Marshak and Lev Kvitko. And our early youth was not overshadowed by works of Vladimir Medinsky, Oleg Roy, and unknown authors included in the «List of Patriotic Works Created by Contemporary Writers and Recommended for Extracurricular Reading» published last week by the Ministry of Education.
#shaman #AgniaBarto #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #children #dictatorship #ideology #literature #MinistryofEducation #OlegGazmanov #OlegRoy #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #Russia #SergeiMikhalkov #Stalinism #school
What the State Department Is Now Silent About
The Trump administration is revising its approach to human rights assessments, excluding mentions of abuses in countries it does not wish to criticize excessively from its annual reports. Thus, in Russia, persecution of LGBT people and violence against women are no longer mandatory topics for coverage.
#StateDepartment #homereceipt #DonaldTrump #women #LGBT #MarkRubio #humanrights #rightturn #Russia #USA
The Root Cause of the War, or Power Instead of Law
The main condition for achieving peace in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin constantly names is the «elimination of the root causes of the crisis.» «Root causes» is a very broad, even philosophical term. But without delving into Aristotle's metaphysics, who introduced this term, the root cause of the war is not Ukraine's politics, but the imperial evolution of post-Soviet Russia.
#Analytics #AnatolySobchak #BelovezhAccords #VladimirPutin #gkchp #dictatorship #Empire #NATO #aftertheUSSR #collapseoftheUSSR #Russia #sovereignty #Ukraine #federation
Met after the meeting to prepare yet another meeting
Ukraine — despite all the difficulties and the undeniable overall war fatigue — does not at all look like a side on the brink of collapse that must agree to peace at any cost.
#WarinUkraine #diplomacy #EuropeanUnion #Zelensky #Macron #Putin #USA #Trump
Social Arch Instead of Social Art. A New Money-Intensive Profession Has Emerged in Russia
There was social art, now there is social arch; there were oligarchs and patriarchs – now there are social archs. Putinism is a neo-totalitarian power plus the social archization of the entire country. They were engineers of human souls – now they are specialists in «reverse» social engineering. But let’s leave this Zamyatinism and Orwellianism aside – everything in order.
#state #dictatorship #Dostoevsky #ideology #KonstantinBogomolov #neototalitarianism #society #Orwell #politicaltechnologies #postmodernism #Putinism #Russia #technocrats #thick
Will There Be Enough Oil for the Guns? Economic Perspective on the Alaska Meeting Results
So, the meeting between Donald Trump and turned out to be brief, meaningless, and strange. There will be no ceasefire on the Russian-Ukrainian front; the war will continue. Until a peace agreement is reached or indefinitely – it’s anyone’s guess. But even if Russia has enough soldiers and weapons to keep fighting, will it have enough resources to maintain economic stability for as long?
#Alaska #WarinUkraine #militaryindustrialcomplex #India #China #Taxation #oil #Putin #Russia #sanctions #USA #shadowfleet #Trump #finance
«Wanting to survive just a little longer. Out of principle»
Across the country, bookstores are undergoing searches and prosecutor inspections. Publishers send them lists of «banned» books that must be removed from sale and destroyed. All foreign agent books must be sold by the end of summer: from September 1, any educational activity by authors with this status will be prohibited. How do small bookstores in the regions survive under these conditions? A report from Rostov-on-Don, where, despite all difficulties, there are three such stores.
#business #foreignagents #Books #LGBT #youth #society #education #Regions #reportage #repressions #Russia #securityforces #south
The Path of Pétain: How a World War I Hero Surrendered France to the Germans During World War II
On August 15, 1945, the Supreme Court of France sentenced Marshal Pétain to death on charges of collusion with the enemy and treason. This historic verdict marked the end of the long journey of the World War I hero who became a symbol of French collaborationism with the Third Reich. It also marked the beginning of a harsh period of postwar purges and persecutions against French citizens who cooperated with the Vichy authorities. The personality of the marshal himself remains a subject of debate, speculation, and contradictions even 80 years later.
#WorldWarII #GeneraldeGaulle #Hitler #SpanishCivilWar #europe #historicalmyth #History #collaborationism #MarshalPétain #FirstWorldWar #rights #resistance #fascism #France
Submarine Diplomacy or Donbass for the Arctic? What to Expect After the Alaska Summit
The announcement of the August 15 meeting between Donald Trump and in Alaska shocked the entire world without exaggeration. Even seasoned observers needed several days to realize — this was not a guess, a prank, or a hoax. The range of assessments and forecasts for the upcoming summit was enormous: from hopes that the war would end very soon to skepticism about whether everything might fall apart at the last moment. Let’s try to understand the position both sides approached this rendezvous from and what might follow afterward.
#Alaska #WarinUkraine #diplomacy #historicalanalogies #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump
How a Russian woman living in Ukraine helps compatriots return from captivity and avoid being sent to the front a second time
Irina Krynyina is the first wife of a Russian prisoner of war who came to Ukraine in the fall of 2023 to be with her civilian husband. Since then, not only her life but also her motivations have changed dramatically. Leaving behind a comfortable life in her native Krasnoyarsk, Krynyina, together with other Russian women living in Ukraine, founded the movement «Our Way Out» – and now helps relatives of Russian prisoners of war locate them in Ukrainian captivity. We spoke with Irina about how former captives can avoid being sent back to war.
#WarinUkraine #women #personalexperience #mobilization #society #prisoners #Russia #Ukraine
The Writer of the Russian Snake. On the Seventieth Anniversary of Vladimir Sorokin
We have long been inside his endless Telluria, living within his self-fulfilling prophecy, tumbling inside the Machine of Violence he described. And it cannot be said that we were not warned; Russian literature has never before had such a clear prediction over the past decades leading up to the catastrophe.
#VladimirSorokin #war #dictatorship #Dostoevsky #catastrophe #literature #aftertheUSSR #postmodernism #Russia #thick #totalitarianism
Why the Kremlin Is So Uncomfortable with the Memory of the Mass Executions in Karelia
The forested Sandarmokh tract seems to threaten the Russian authorities by its very existence. From their point of view, since people do not forget about it, their memory must be reformatted—by any means and at any cost.
#thecaseofYuriDmitriev #dictatorship #historicalmemory #Karelia #NKVD #Putin #repressions #Sandarmokh #theUSSR #Stalin #FSB
At seven in the evening after the war. What will happen to the Russian economy if peace is declared
The problem of Russia's return to peace is multi-layered. One layer is the reverse structural restructuring, partial or complete. The second is the preservation and lifting of sanctions and other restrictions. The third is the social consequences, related not only to the absorption by the labor market of more than half a million former fighters but also to disruptions in business groups tied to the war.
#Analytics #militaryindustrialcomplex #war #investments #world #Putin #Russia #sanctions #USA #Trump #Ukraine #Economy
«The Church Blesses the Warriors.» Report from the Pre-War Concert by the Kremlin Walls
On August 6, a gala concert of the «SVO Ballads» festival took place in Moscow’s Zaryadye Park. It was organized by Monk Kiprian — a veteran of the Afghan war, Hero of the Soviet Union, and a fan of singer-songwriter music in civilian life. A correspondent from «Most» reports on how it all unfolded.
#WarinUkraine #cringe #Moscow #society #Patriotism #aftertheUSSR #postmodernism #reportage #Russia #church
Who Sewed the Suit, or Valentina and Valentina
A hallmark of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes is a lack of taste and complete insensitivity to what happens to people. Along with a passion for regulating everything, which extends into controlling everyday life relationships. Uniformity very often turns out ugly. But here’s the problem: the state has launched a reboot of neo-totalitarianism in a modernized and diverse society.
#ValentinaMatvienko #ValentinaTereshkova #power #state #children #dictatorship #fashion #society #postmodernism #Parents #family #school
Why Russia failed to transform from an empire into a federation? And is it possible now?
Today, many representatives of national-regional movements in political exile have a clear disappointment in the Russian federal project, since it has repeatedly (both after 1918 and after 1991) led only to yet another revival of a centralist empire. Therefore, they find no common ground even with the new liberal opposition, which in its dreams of a beautiful future Russia sometimes oddly repeats Kremlin unitarist ideas.
#future #decoloniality #Yeltsin #Empire #History #nation #society #aftertheUSSR #protests #Putin #republics #Russia #federalism #language
We are secretly hostile to each other. Why the EU signed a disadvantageous trade agreement with the USA
The American side is not going to make any concessions, at least according to the statements made. The EU pays for everything, receiving nothing in return. But this is not the only oddity of the deal, if we use Trump's terminology.
#Analytics #business #diplomacy #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #investments #duties #USA #tradewar #UrsulavonderLeyen
Investigation Against the Investigators: Trump Accuses Obama of Treason
The political confrontation in the United States is intensifying. The current president of the country has accused one of his predecessors of treason over the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election (the so-called «Russiagate»).
#InternetResearchAgency #BarackObama #2016elections #JeffreyEpstein #DonaldTrump #YevgenyPrigogine #Lakhta #PaulManafort #RickGates #RobertMuller #Russianintervention #scandal #TulsiGabbard #FBI #HillaryClinton