Botten ur för den ryska ekonomin. - Klarar inte längre att betala räntorna.

And now for @tochnyi.info's (slightly delayed) monthly coverage of the slow-motion crash of Russia's piggy bank, the so-called NWF.

Of course, the decembers numbers were highly expected. Let's see what they reveal.

Russia: “About 70 migrant violators and three draft dodgers detained at Kalinin vegetable base”

“during a raid on one of the largest wholesale warehouses in St. Petersburg.”

🍿 Sure, go ahead, keep messing with the food supply Russia!

🇷🇺: What could go wrong?

Also for reference:

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/07/30/s-polok-rossiiskih-magazinov-nachali-propadat-produkti-pitaniya-posle-massovoi-deportatsii-migrantov -a138159

In three Russian regions, grocery shelves in stores are empty after migrants were expelled

Water and some food products have begun to disappear from the shelves of Pyaterochka stores in the Yaroslavl, Ivanovo and Kostroma regions, where the retail chain occupies about 40-50% of the market.

According to Mash , the problem with the supply of bread, cereals, flour, spices and bottles of water arose last week. First, they stopped being sold in some Pyaterochka stores in Yaroslavl, and then the "epidemic of bare shelves" spread to Rybinsk, Kovrov and some cities in the Ivanovo and Kostroma regions.

As Mash writes, the cause was a failure in the operation of the X5 Group distribution centers, from where goods are delivered to stores. Following anti-migrant raids, as a result of which some employees were deported from Russia, the centers are short about 1,000 workers.

Russia’s Saratov region asks restaurants to donate part of their profits to support soldiers fighting in Ukraine

The government of Russia’s Saratov region has sent a letter to local restaurant owners calling on them to make monthly payments to support soldiers fighting in the war in Ukraine, according to the Telegram channel Soykaperesmeshchnitsa.

A copy of the letter was shared in a private restaurateurs’ chat by Elena Pavlova-Rusinova, the owner of the restaurant “Dacha.”

“They’re asking for regular financial assistance for participants of the ‘special military operation’ — 0.2 percent of a business’s monthly turnover,” she wrote.

IMF Raises Russian Economic Growth Forecast for 2025

The International Monetary Fund has raised its thumbsuck forecast for Russian economic growth in 2025 to 1.4% from 1.3%, and also re-evaluated the country's results for 2024 - from 3.6 to 3.8%.

With ‘Zero Visibility’ into the Russian Economy, the IMF is Parroting Putin’s Line

The International Monetary Fund is lacking the independent data to evaluate the state of Russia’s economy. But rather than admitting ignorance, write Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Roach, and Steven Tian, the IMF is accepting the Kremlin’s statistics—and fueling pessimism about the impact of sanctions.

In Udmurtia as a side effect of the increased service life of elevators by decree they will replace only 32 elevators in 2025 vs 102 in 2024. The number that should have originally been replaced by February 2025 in the region was 1300.

On russian Telegram: Another day colder and deeper in debt

Dollar inflow into Russia collapses to mid-1990s levels

The Russian economy is facing a growing deficit of key global currencies amid tightening sanctions.

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Russian inflation was 🔥 14.2% in December (seasonally adjusted annualized rate), according to Russia's central bank.
Food inflation 22.9% per year