On February 20, in Kyiv, Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture Oleksii Sobolev and French Ambassador to Ukraine Gael Vesier signed an intergovernmental agreement (AIG) on the renewal of the replenishment fund for critical infrastructure and priority sectors of the Ukrainian economy (Ukraine Fund II). The signing took place in the presence of Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe,…
Supplies of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have started to face disruptions in Russian regions. A shortage of gasoline fuel is observed in the Nizhegorodskaya, Yaroslavskaya, Volgogradskaya regions, the Moscow region, and Tatarstan, writes “Kommersant”. Market participants have reported a critical reduction in reserves. The “Real-Invest” group of companies reported on the forced closure of some…
More than half of large companies in Russia ended 2025 with a drop in profits, reduced or completely froze investment projects, and many of them are preparing to lay off employees, warned the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. According to a survey by the RUIE, last year only 19% of companies continued to invest…
Following the “cucumber” inflation, which exceeded 100%, Russia, it seems, is being hit by a crisis in the egg market. According to data from Rosstat, over the last week, a dozen eggs on the shelves of stores and supermarkets have become 3.4% more expensive – a record among all food products in the statistics. Over…
Russian IT specialists have faced not only a halt in salary growth over the past year, but also the need to search for jobs amid staff cuts. This follows from an online survey by the educational platform PurpleSchool and the PR agency Glava, in which more than 1,100 respondents participated. The results of the survey…
The average weighted price of a new passenger car in Russia over the four years of the war has risen by 46%, from 2.4 million to 3.5 million rubles, and taking into account the strong ruble, it exceeds $45 thousand, calculated the general director of the analytical agency “AUTOSTAT” Sergey Tselikov. According to him, this is…
School teachers in Russian regions have started to face delays in receiving part of their salaries, the “Teacher” trade union told “Izvestia”. Teachers in at least 10 regions did not receive payments for class supervision in January. In particular, this happened in the Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Rostov, Arkhangelsk, Tambov, Ryazan regions, the Zabaykalsky and Khabarovsk Krais,…