Tough shit. Cry me a river asswipes with your fucking yuppie businesses. This is what it looks like when Moscow and St.Petersburg are impacted and not just the kids from Siberia and Tartars from Crimea. One of the things that is disgusting is all these types suddenly crowing about "being against the war." That's complete bullshit. What they are against is mobilization. Otherwise they were content to watch it on Russian TV or youtube as long as the peasants were fighting the war. Instead they are running off and polluting places like Georgia- countries that have been trying very hard for years to develop non-Russian identities. Now they are wall-to-wall with Russian speakers who are rapidly russifying their countries, again. set flame/off.
Russia's Economy Ravaged by War as Budget Surplus Completely Wiped Out Russia's budget surplus more than halved last month in a sign of the impact Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is having on his country's public finances. Preliminary data from Russia's Finance Ministry showed that the country's fiscal surplus shrank to 55 billion rubles ($860 million) in the first nine months of the year, down from 137 billion roubles ($2.15 billion), Bloomberg reported. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-war-budget-deficit-ruble-economy-1751552
link below. Just one of many reasons why K-stan distances itself from Russia these days. They have some economic strengths and aspirations that would go down the tube immediately if they had done something stupid like send troops to Ukraine as Putin keeps leaning on them to do. Nope. And they will be shipping increasing amounts of oil to countries that - shall we say- are no longer big customers for Russia. Stay far, far, away from Russian geopolitical games and your future will be much brighter. Huge Kazakh Oilfield Set To Resume Production By End-October https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-O...-Set-To-Resume-Production-By-End-October.html
Russia Is Losing Its Influence In Central Asia https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Russia-Is-Losing-Its-Influence-In-Central-Asia.html
Every week the amount of oil Russia is pumping goes decreases as equipment breaks down and the country cannot replace it. Putin's answer is to seize the western oil company properties -- which is not helping change anything. Exxon Exits Russia Completely After Putin Seizes Company's Properties: Report https://www.benzinga.com/government...after-putin-seizes-companys-properties-report
Mr. Terr gets some points there. He pointed out the vulnerability of the supply of bearings months ago.
All those chips that failed QA and were on the discharge pile out back. Guess where they landed up. What a shame. China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/russia_china_semiconductro_failure_rates/ The failure rate of semiconductors shipped from China to Russia has increased by 1,900 percent in recent months, according to Russian national business daily Коммерсантъ (Kommersant). Quoting an anonymous source, Kommersant states that before Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine the defect rate in imported silicon was two percent. Since that war commenced, Russian manufacturers have apparently faced 40 percent failure rates. Even a two percent defect rate is sub-optimal, because products made of many components can therefore experience considerable quality problems. Forty percent failure rates mean supplies are perilously close to being unfit for purpose. According to Kommersant, Russian electronics manufacturers are not enjoying life at all because, on top of high failure rates, gray market gear doesn't flow with the same speed as legit kit and supply chains are currently very kinked indeed inside Russia. The newspaper lays the blame on economic sanctions that have seen many major businesses quit Russia. Gray market distributors and other opportunistic operators have been left as the only entities willing to deal with Russian businesses. Gray market folks are not renowned for their sterling customer service nor their commitment to quality. They get away with it because buyers of products with – ahem – unconventional origins self-incriminate if they complain to authorities. Perhaps they're even dumping dud product on Russian buyers, knowing that they can't easily access alternatives. If 40 percent of silicon sourced from China is indeed kaput, it's an interesting expression of the "friendship without limits" that Moscow and Beijing declared in February 2022. It's also an oddity, given China's oft-stated ambition to crush corruption, modernize its economy, and focus only on quality development of world-leading products. China has used diplomatic language that makes it plain it does not entirely approve of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine – but the Middle Kingdom also doesn't entirely mind Russia's international isolation. It means Chinese companies' export prospects improve at a time when most of the world's liberal democracies have shut the door on Huawei, ZTE, and other high-tech Chinese companies. Moscow, meanwhile, needs to pump out more kit to sustain its illegal invasion. Semiconductors are a critical element of that effort, so if failure rates are high whoever is sending dodgy products to Russia is hampering the not-a-war effort.