The government has almost halved the number of RSD59 project dry cargo ships that are to be built as part of the program of preferential leasing of civilian ships, according to a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to the document, which was noticed by “Vedomosti”, in 2023–2028, the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC)…
In 2025, a record number of counterfeit dairy products were detected in Russian stores, according to Rospotrebnadzor. Almost 18% of products in this category turned out to be fake. For comparison: in 2022, this figure was about 15%, in 2023 – 12%, and in 2024 – 13%. In the Rosselkhoznadzor noted that it is “technologically…
In 2025, more than 486,000 cars were recalled from buyers in Russia for technical reasons. Compared to 2024, during which just over 139,000 vehicles were recalled, the number of cars with various factory defects increased by 3.5 times. This follows from the data of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology, which were analyzed…
Developers have started refusing to build new residential buildings in Russia’s largest cities. By the end of 2025, the largest reduction in new projects occurred in Ufa — by 35% year-on-year, in Moscow — by 29.2%, in Rostov-on-Don — by 29.6%, and in Samara — by 23%. This follows from the data of the Unified…
In 2025, the rates for freight transport by road in Russia increased by an average of 12%. However, the increase was more significant on certain routes. For example, the cost of transporting goods on the routes from Moscow to St. Petersburg and from Voronezh to Volgograd increased by 30%, and from Omsk to Novosibirsk —…
Nornickel’s multi-billion dollar project to build a copper plant in China, which the company’s CEO Vladimir Potanin announced in 2024, is on the verge of collapse. The Chinese partner decided to withdraw from the project, which planned to build a facility with a capacity of 500,000 tons of copper per year in the Fangchenggang port…
Sales of new passenger cars fell after the increase in VAT and the scrappage tax. The second working week of the new year gives a worrying signal: sales decreased by 19% to 18,200 units compared to the previous week, and by 11% year-on-year, said the CEO of the analytical agency “AUTOSTAT”, Sergey Tselikov. “We can…