Passengers of a regular civilian flight RD-382 from Irkutsk to the working settlement of Mama, which was carried out on January 22, complained about the airline “IrAero” due to the replacement of the aircraft without notice, reported in the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor’s Office. According to people, they were transferred to a cargo plane An-26,…
Russians are buying less butter after its sharp price increase. In January-September 2025, sales of the product in physical terms fell by 12% year-on-year, to 210,400 tons, but in monetary terms they rose by 17%, to 216.8 billion rubles. This follows from the data of the analytical company NTech, which cites “Vedomosti”. In “Magnit”, they…
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…
The federal budget of Russia in 2025 was in deficit for the fourth consecutive year: the government’s revenues were lower than its expenditures by 5.645 trillion rubles, reported the Ministry of Finance on Monday. Compared to 2024 (3.471 trillion rubles), the “hole” in the treasury increased by 1.6 times, and in relative terms – 2.6%…
Almost a third of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) ended last year with large non-payments from counterparties. In December, 31% of enterprises “had significant overdue receivables”, showed a survey of SMEs conducted by Promsvyazbank, the NAFI analytical center, and Magram Market Research. In particular, at 12% of respondents, non-payments appeared more than six months ago,…