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MOSCOW, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Cargo volumes handled by state-owned Russian Railways continued to fall in November, data showed on Monday, as the country's biggest commercial employer grapples with mounting financial problems.
November cargo loading fell 1.5% year-on-year to 94.2 million tonnes and January-November volumes dropped by 5.6% to 1.021 trillion tonnes, Russian Railways said in a statement.
 
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Russia’s Oil Revenues Are Falling Fast As Fiscal Pressure Mounts

Russia’s oil and gas revenues plunge as sanctions, falling crude prices and a stronger ruble squeeze Moscow’s budget and test its fiscal resilience amid war spending.
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Russia’s dependence on oil and gas revenues has long been one of the country’s greatest economic strengths. That same dependence is now becoming one of its most significant vulnerabilities. In November, Russia’s energy revenues fell sharply, underscoring how sanctions, weak crude prices, and currency dynamics are converging to squeeze Moscow’s finances at a time of elevated military spending.

According to recent estimates, Russia is expected to collect roughly 520 billion rubles—about $6.6 billion—from oil and gas in November. That represents a 35% decline from the same month a year ago and a meaningful drop even from October. For a government that relies on energy revenues for roughly a quarter of its federal budget, such a contraction creates immediate fiscal strain.
 

BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Wednesday to phase out Russian gas imports by late 2027 as part of an effort to end the bloc's decade-long dependency on Russian energy.
Representatives for EU governments and the European Parliament reached an agreement in the early hours of Wednesday on proposals set out by the European Commission in June to end shipments from the EU's former top gas supplier following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.


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Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Fall 34% Year-on-Year in November - The Moscow Times

Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell sharply again in November, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, underscoring mounting pressure on the federal budget from a combination of sanctions, weak crude prices and a strong ruble.
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"Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell sharply again in November, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, underscoring mounting pressure on the federal budget from a combination of sanctions, weak crude prices and a strong ruble.

The government collected 530.9 billion rubles ($6.8 billion) in oil and gas taxes last month, a 34% drop from the same month a year earlier.

Revenue from the mineral extraction tax fell 36%, while export duties slumped nearly 40%.

Oil and gas income totaled 8 trillion rubles ($103 billion) in the first 11 months of the year, down 2.3 trillion ($29.63 billion) from the same period in 2024.

The decline has accelerated over the year, from 14% in May to 20% in August and 22% by early December."
 
Haven said:
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Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Fall 34% Year-on-Year in November - The Moscow Times

Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell sharply again in November, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, underscoring mounting pressure on the federal budget from a combination of sanctions, weak crude prices and a strong ruble.
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"Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell sharply again in November, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, underscoring mounting pressure on the federal budget from a combination of sanctions, weak crude prices and a strong ruble.

The government collected 530.9 billion rubles ($6.8 billion) in oil and gas taxes last month, a 34% drop from the same month a year earlier.

Revenue from the mineral extraction tax fell 36%, while export duties slumped nearly 40%.

Oil and gas income totaled 8 trillion rubles ($103 billion) in the first 11 months of the year, down 2.3 trillion ($29.63 billion) from the same period in 2024.

The decline has accelerated over the year, from 14% in May to 20% in August and 22% by early December."
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Napoleon and Hitler = = The Russians = = Who Won ? !
 
clarke-connolly said:
Napoleon and Hitler = = The Russians = = Who Won ? !
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Hmm.

Russia/USSR has lost the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921, the First Chechen War, and the Soviet-Afghan war.

So....a mixed record, would you say?
 
Haven said:
Hmm.

Russia/USSR has lost the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921, the First Chechen War, and the Soviet-Afghan war.

So....a mixed record, would you say?
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The Two Big Ones Though ! !
 

"BAGHDAD, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), opens new tab has approached the Iraqi oil ministry to express its interest in buying Russian firm Lukoil's majority stake in the giant West Qurna 2 oilfield, five Iraqi official sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
Lukoil (LKOH.MM), opens new tab is trying to sell its international assets after the U.S. imposed sanctions on the company, and Exxon's move would mark a major expansion of the U.S. major's return to Iraq as Moscow tries to offload key energy assets."
 
clarke-connolly said:
The Two Big Ones Though ! !
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WW1 wasnt big? It only cost the Russians 9m casualaties, led to the death of the Tsar and a brutal civil war. It was far bigger than Napoleons invasion.

But also, Russia can't always win smaller wars.

BTW, Stalin was only able to stay in the war against Germany due to massive amounts of US aid.

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'We Would Have Lost': Did U.S. Lend-Lease Aid Tip The Balance In Soviet Fight Against Nazi Germany?

Ever since the Cold War, many Soviet and Russian politicians and academics have downplayed the role that U.S.-provided weapons and supplies played in the Red Army's ultimately victorious campaign against Hitler's Germany. But there is substantial evidence that the huge influx of materiel made an...
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"In 1963, KGB monitoring recordedSoviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov saying: "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."

And thats from Zhukov!
 
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Vladimir Putin has been on to me !

He has, some high up outside windows that he wants you to attempt to clean ! ! !
 
Haven said:
Hmm.

Russia/USSR has lost the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921, the First Chechen War, and the Soviet-Afghan war.

So....a mixed record, would you say?
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Jacob Schiff was awarded the treasure of japan for his rights issue of 300 million dollars 1890 ish to fund the war against a Russian serf army which the world expected to win but the Japanese /Jews bought state of the art american weapons .
Jacob Schiff after weakening the tsar supplied Trotsky with 22 million dollars from his arse pocket to overthrow the tsar and seize his treasury for the new York bankers . approx 60 million dead
that's 2 Jewish wars the next was the deliberate collapse of the ruble and the stealing of all wealth in Russia in the 1990s again by Jewish oligarchs ( excess death rate 11 million) who ALL NOW LIVE IN ISRAEL since abromavich moved there recently the next Jewish war was the Nuland blinken zelinksy Ukrainian war ongoing at the moment .
the Jewish British empire also used British troops for the Boer war to capture the gold and diamond mines for themselves and the Jewish Sassoon family killed 60 million in china again with British troops and India was robbed of trillions again by the Jewish British empire .
had the Russians under the tsar being allowed to grow naturally they with their vast resources would have passed out the USA long ago .
 
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"Russia has sharply increased its oil discounts to China as state-owned and private refineries pull back from purchasing its barrels, Reuters reported, citing traders on December 5.

Shipments of Russia’s ESPO Blend, loaded for December and delivered to Chinese ports, are now selling at record discounts of $5–6 per barrel below Brent. As recently as late September, Chinese refiners were paying a premium of $0.50–$1 above Brent for the same grade of Far East crude."
 
Haven said:

This is becoming a huge problem for Russia.

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when they take Odessa Ukraine will have to beg the polish for access to a port and then you will then find out what the polish are .
they have their greedy eyes on a good chunk of Ukraine .
Europe have made a disaster of Ukraine by using them to try and rob Russia and failing.
the minerals and soil and gas and oil Russia have won are in the many trillions .
Putin would have been mad to turn down this silver plated extension of the Russian state as these Europeans are terrorists .
 
The Poles will grab the territory that they once held.

But when are the Russians taking Odessa
 
People only hate on Russia because the jiu media put the idea in their head.

If Putin is toppled, jiu oligarchs will take ownership of Russia again.

And the Russian people will starve. Russian girls and children will be pimped all over the world.

Look at (jiu)kraine, the white men were sent to die and the fat lip jius got all the money and ran to israhell.
 
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Russia's Kleptocracy: Domestic Consequences of Corruption - The Borgen Project

Russia’s kleptocracy went from a source of stability to an Achilles’ heel. The aim to keep oligarchs wealthy and happy comes at the cost of...
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President Vladimir Putin used a recruitment base of KGB veterans (or the siloviki) to fill top posts in the executive branch and the economy. Some run law enforcement agencies – Ministry of Interior (MVD) and Federal Security Service (FSB). Others manage state-owned companies in the energy sector, banking and transportation. The silovarchs use coercive capacities and criminal connections to target businesses and extract corrupt rents.

Putin also dueled out advantages to close friends from childhood, the Ozero dacha cooperative and hobbies. These oligarchs own firms that benefit from state contracts and the public procurement system. Gennady Timchenko and the Rotenberg brothers obtained a fortune building pipelines for Gazprom.

Russia’s kleptocracy not only relies on elite control over state resources, but the lack of rule of law. The Kremlin keeps everyone in permanent legal jeopardy to maintain control. As the regime encourages bureaucrats and businessmen to engage in corrupt schemes, private eyes gather kompromat (evidence of legal wrongdoing) to hold over their heads.
 
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  • Russia's war chest is being hammered by a slump in oil shipments and a decline in prices, sending the value of crude exports to the lowest since January 2023.
  • The four-week average crude flows fell in the period to Dec. 14, driven by the biggest week-on-week slump in flows since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
  • The gross value of Moscow's exports fell to $1.09 billion a week in the 28 days to Dec. 14, with the impact of the lower export quantities magnified by the 11th straight drop in average prices.
 

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