There are already reports that the price drop expected in the fall as a result of the harvest coming in over, and that inflation will only go up from here. As a result, weakening of the ruble to boost exports may cause food prices to skyrocket.
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The government is continuing to push for stronger price controls on food products. These controls will generally only impact domestic products, further killing domestic production and increasing reliance of imports.
sep 1, 2025, 5:31 pm • 64 1 • view
The government is trying to deal with a ballooning deficit. They are moving toward trying to increase taxes on small businesses.
sep 1, 2025, 5:33 pm • 66 0 • view
Everyone has already had their taxes increased significantly. As I’ve said before, this isn’t the beginning of a crisis, it’s the middle of one. Feeding this war is unsustainable. You can only tax so much, you can only cut so much.
sep 1, 2025, 5:34 pm • 73 6 • view
And they’ve been aggressively working all of the angles since 2023. (Cutting costs on things other than the war, increasing taxes, etc)
sep 1, 2025, 5:35 pm • 62 1 • view
By the end of the month we may have a better idea of what the government is going to have to do. Next year’s budget is due at the end of the month and we should see SOMETHING in terms of what they plan to do about the 2025 budget (which is a mess).
sep 1, 2025, 5:37 pm • 59 0 • view
What they chose to do may give is a better idea of what sort of problems we can expect. There are no good choices, only bad ones. But which one of they choose could result in vastly different bad outcomes.
sep 1, 2025, 5:39 pm • 61 1 • view
In terms of the loading, what can we possibly expect in the future? Well…
sep 1, 2025, 5:40 pm • 60 0 • view
Considering the financial difficulties that Russian Railways is having, I find it unlikely that we’re going to see the kind of significant investment necessary to fix the big problems that they have overall. Recall that previously it was clear that Russian Railways couldn’t meet demand.
sep 1, 2025, 5:42 pm • 63 0 • view
Partisans are still attacking Russian Railways locomotives. This one was in the Komi Republic
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 86 4 • view
We’ve seen Ukraine strike several substations related to Russian Railways. These seem to impact passenger traffic more significantly than freight traffic. But Russian Railways is still going to need to pay to get it repaired, further hurting the business financially.
sep 1, 2025, 5:47 pm • 67 0 • view