Restaurants in Latvia are currently in a very difficult situation, says Janis Jenzis, head of the Latvian Restaurant Association (LRA). He noted that another Michelin-recommended restaurant, Barents, had announced its closure, which clearly showed that at the beginning of the year the catering industry and restaurants were facing serious hardship. Jenzis added that difficulties in…
Post-holiday sales at industrial goods stores are drawing as many shoppers as last year, but weather gear, sports goods and clothing are selling better. January is traditionally a discount season in retail and this year is no different. Guido Parnits, director of the Ulemiste Keskus shopping center, told ERR that sales during this year’s January…
Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel said that Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure were leaving millions of civilians without electricity and heat and posing serious risks to nuclear safety. He wrote about this on social media X after discussing the situation with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. “Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure…
Russian consumers are refusing to buy the most expensive types of meat, increasingly “tightening their belts” and switching to a mode of saving. For January–September 2025, retail sales of beef decreased by 6% in natural terms, and lamb by 39%, reports “Kommersant” citing data from the analytical company Ntech. Russians are replacing expensive meat with cheap chicken: its sales increased by 4%.…
In Russia, there is an acute shortage of one of the key chemotherapy drugs – “Carboplatin”. The medicine, used to treat lung, ovarian, bladder, and breast cancer, as well as in veterinary medicine for animals with malignant tumors, is almost impossible to find in pharmacies, reports “Caution, News”. A resident of Penza told the publication…
According to the new, January IMF assessment, in 2026, the Russian GDP will increase by only 0.8% — 0.2 percentage points less than the fund expected in October, and 0.4 percentage points less than the forecast that the IMF gave in January 2025. As a result, in the current year, the Russian economy will grow…
Several Ukrainian electrical substations that were critical to ensuring nuclear safety were damaged in Russian strikes on January 20, and the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant had completely lost external power supply. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said this in a post on X. The IAEA “is actively following developments in order to assess impact…