The whole truth about the Russian business, oligarchs, crime and officials

Putin intends to fight for another three years

Governance●28.07.2026

The Russian dictator has ordered an increase in military spending in the Russian budget for the next three years.

Oil production in Russia is falling faster than expected

Business●10.07.2026

Russia's daily oil production will be below 9 million barrels per day.

Putin's swindler Oleg Nasobin faces prison in Italy

Crime●19.06.2026

The Italian press has directly labeled Ural swindler Oleg Nasobin, the former head of the Green Mama Laundromat, as a fraudster who attempted to illegally enrich himself by selling air.

Putin spends two-thirds of the taxes collected for the budget on the war

Governance●13.06.2026

Russia's military spending soared to nearly 6 trillion rubles in the first quarter.

Russian billionaires don't feel the sanctions

Business●02.06.2026

The wealth of Russian billionaires has grown by $22 billion since the beginning of the year.

Since the start of the war, Ukraine has launched more than 150 strikes on Russian oil refineries

Governance●22.05.2026

Ukraine is increasing the frequency of attacks on Putin's oil refineries.

Ukraine is knocking out Russian fertilizer production

Business●13.05.2026

Ukrainian missiles and drones can permanently disable factories.

Russia's coal industry has suffered significant losses

Business●11.03.2026

Russian coal companies' annual losses exceeded $8 billion.

The oil rally due to the Iran war won't save the Russian budget

Business●03.03.2026

The war in Iran has pushed Brent crude prices to $83 per barrel, but this won't help Russia balance its budget, bloated by the cost of the war against Ukraine.

Moscow Recalls Frozen Assets in Europe

Governance●03.03.2026

The Central Bank Questions the Legitimacy of the EU Sanctions Regime.

Putin's Russia is short of money

Governance●26.02.2026

Russian regions entered the fifth year of the war with a record financial hole.

Vladimir Putin is preparing a new wave of mobilization

Governance●23.02.2026

The Russian army has banned the recruitment of mercenaries from nearly 40 countries.

The "gap" in Russia's budget system for 2025 exceeded 8 trillion rubles

Governance●17.02.2026

The combined deficit of all budgets in Russia's budget system by the end of 2025 reached a historic high of 8.291 trillion rubles, according to Ministry of Finance data published in the Electronic Budget system.

Bullets over bread

Governance●03.10.2025

Russia’s economy is growing dangerously reliant on military contracts.

Russia's war spending hits new record

Governance●27.08.2025

Putin spends 600 million dollars a day on the war against Ukraine.

Yen don't stink

Business●11.08.2025

Japanese firm's Russia machine sales surge 2,000% during war.

More than 400 statistical indicators have been classified in Russia since the beginning of the year

Governance●09.08.2025

The Russian authorities continue to secretly apply the “secret” stamp on state statistics - from demography and economics to the numbers in the work of power structures.

Putin's raw materials economy is falling apart

Business●11.06.2025

Oil and gas companies' profits halved in Q1 2025.

Oleg Nasobin could not defeat Wikipedia

Business●06.06.2025

A complete failure ended with a public legalization of the scandalous Russian businessman Oleg Nasobin in 2004 in the flea market in France a portrait of a man in 2004.

The West Greases Putin's War Machine with Petrodollars

Business●30.05.2025

Western tanker companies return to large-scale transportation of Russian oil.

Russia intends to fight against Ukraine forever

Governance●30.05.2025

Russian aggression will last as long as necessary, said Vasily Nebenzya.

EU to close market to Russian fertilizers

Business●22.05.2025

The European Parliament voted on Thursday to impose very high tariffs on fertilizers and some agricultural products from Russia and Belarus.

Oil plays against Putin's regime

Business●22.05.2025

Russian government sharply cuts spending on key economic support programs.

Russia has less than 30 years of oil left

Business●21.05.2025

The oil prosperity that Russia has been living in since the middle of the last century, selling “black gold” abroad and buying technology and consumer goods in exchange, is approaching its end at an alarming rate.

Two-thirds of Italian companies continued to operate in Russia

Business●21.05.2025

After the invasion into Ukraine in 2022 and the introduction of large-scale sanctions against Russia, 70% of Italian companies continued to do business in the country, said the president of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce (IRTP) and the founder of Delimobil Vincenzo Trani in an interview with RBC.

Russia Classifies Record 32% of Budget

Governance●14.05.2025

The Russian government continues to increase secret budget expenditures, hiding in the "shadows" a trillion-dollar bill for the war in Ukraine, which has already cost Russian taxpayers more than 20 trillion rubles.

Russian government to save "private Gazprom"

Business●23.04.2025

Gazprom asks to reduce taxes after a trillion-ruble loss in a year.

Russia's oil revenues fall to a nearly two-year low

Business●15.04.2025

The collapse in Urals oil prices and production cuts under the OPEC+ agreement have hit the export revenues of the Russian economy.