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Investments in the economy have stopped growing, acknowledged Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak in a discussion with senators: “The growth of investments in the first nine months of 2025 was 0.5%. For the whole year, it will most likely be zero or slightly above”. In September, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation forecasted a 1.7% increase in investments for 2025. However, shortly after, Rosstat recorded the first annual decline in investments in the last five years — a 3.1% decrease in the third quarter. The Ministry of Economic Development also anticipates a contraction for this year:…
In a speech delivered on Tuesday in the Ukrainian parliament, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated that concluding a peace agreement with Russia will require complex decisions, but assured that the alliance’s support for Ukraine will not diminish. Mark Rutte conveyed to the parliamentarians from Kiev that Ukraine “is and will remain essential for our security”. Speaking through an interpreter, he highlighted the crucial role of the PURL weapons procurement program, which provides 90% of Ukraine’s air defense missiles. “Putin has long believed that he can wait for us to give up. That Ukraine is weak, that your supporters will…
The Polish Public Television (TVP) has launched news in Romanian for the Republic of Moldova, focusing on Russian disinformation and the benefits of Chisinau’s accession to the European Union as the country awaits the opening of negotiations. On Monday, February 2, TVP launched a Romanian version of its news service dedicated to the Republic of Moldova. This comes after in August 2025 it launched the service “Vot Tak” (“That’s right. Moldova”), that is, news in Russian with the aim of addressing the realities of the post-Soviet region and counteracting the narratives of Kremlin propaganda. Although Russian is widely spoken in…
The irrational confidence of the Russians in the prosperity of the Russian economy, which emerged against the backdrop of patriotic enthusiasm at the start of the war, began to erode rapidly. The index of citizens’ expectations regarding the country’s development prospects for the next year dropped to 107 points in January 2026 — the lowest level since the end of 2022, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The index’s drop, by 10 points in a single month, is the most abrupt since the mobilization shock of the fall of 2022. At the…
Russia is prepared for the new reality of a world without limits in nuclear arms control, after the New START treaty expires at the end of this week, declared on Tuesday the main Russian representative for arms control. Unless Moscow and Washington reach a last-minute bilateral agreement of some kind, the “New START” treaty, signed in 2010 by US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, will expire on February 5th. “The absence of a response is also a response”, declared Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, quoted by Reuters. He made the comments during a visit to Beijing,…
In the Moscow metro, following Saint Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, checks of passengers’ mobile phones will begin, reported the publications Kommersant and RBC, citing the press service of the Moscow Metro. The basis for these checks is an order from the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation dated February 4, 2025, which stipulates that mobile phones, along with radio and TV equipment, photography and filming devices, personal computers, as well as audio-video technology, can be subject to control “by turning on the device and checking its operation”. Representatives of the metro clarified that the phones of Moscow passengers will be…
A research center close to the Russian authorities, The Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASTF), has found that “the banking crisis, previously predicted by the early warning system, is now confirmed according to formal criteria”, and shortly before there was already recorded a “non-performing loan crisis”. The center’s leading indicator also signals high risks of “massive depositor withdrawals”. For now, this phenomenon is not manifesting due to the latent nature of the crisis, notes CMASTF, but “in case of intensification of crisis processes, these can surface”. By systemic banking crisis, the center understands a situation where at least…
In the last six years, Russia has provided nearly 100 purebred horses to North Korea’s elite military units, which are used in Kim Jong Un’s cavalry regiment and at military parades in Pyongyang. A key supplier has been Tatarstan, which hosts one of the most important farms in the country, writes The Moscow Times. According to the Ministry of Agriculture in Tatarstan, Stud Farm No. 57 has sent over 20 Orlov Trotter horses to North Korea in the last seven years. The Orlov Trotter is a Russian breed developed in the late 18th century by Count Alexei Orlov. It is…
The Kremlin regime announces that it will finance Cuba and help it overcome the severe economic problems it faces after the US stopped the flow of Venezuelan oil to the Cuban regime. Sergey Lavrov, Putin’s chief diplomat, announced that Russia is ready to help Cuba directly with money, during a phone discussion with the Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parilla, reports The Moscow Times. The discussions focused on “priority issues of bilateral cooperation and the international agenda”. Lavrov stated that Russia insists that US actions against Cuba, including the blockade of the island’s oil supply, are “unacceptable”, threatening to cause…
The European Union is considering the possibility of banning imports of copper and platinum from Russia, as part of a new package of sanctions against Moscow in response to the war in Ukraine. According to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter, the measures could also be extended to other precious metals, such as iridium and rhodium. To come into effect, the sanctions must be supported by all EU member states, and the community bloc intends to adopt the new package even this month. Spokespersons for the European Commission responsible for the sanctions regime declined to comment on the…