The total number of registered passenger cars in Russia has decreased for the first time in 25 years. At the end of 2025, there were 52.8 million cars registered with the traffic police, which is 0.18% less than a year earlier. Thus, almost 100 thousand cars were deregistered over the year. This follows from the…
The price of oil that would allow the government to cover all expenses and achieve a balanced budget amounted to $93 per barrel in 2025, according to analysts at Alfa-Bank. Compared to 2024, the budget-balancing price increased by $4, compared to 2023 – by $7, and compared to the pre-war 2021 – by $21. As…
The commissioning of the “Karat” microchip factory in the Novokoltsovsky district of Yekaterinburg has been postponed until the end of 2027, according to the head of the Middle Urals Development Corporation (KRSU), Andrey Misiura. Previously, it was planned that the enterprise would be launched by the end of 2026, and it would meet 100% of…
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…