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Post by blindpig » Sat Mar 26, 2022 2:34 pm

Russian developers began to stop construction
03/25/2022
Crisis develops

Approximately 40% of construction companies have begun to stop construction throughout Russia due to interruptions in the supply of materials and rising prices. About 29% of construction companies are not experiencing supply issues, but they are halting construction on newly started projects to focus on high completion projects. Over the past month, prices for building materials have increased by 80% for many items, and for certain types - twice. Naturally, the rise in prices for building materials and construction equipment will lead to an increase in the cost of housing.

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Construction in Kazan

Another industry shows the “readiness” of modern Russia and its economy for severe trials. Even a slight strain of forces caused by a special operation led to transport chaos, interruptions in the supply of essential food and non-food products, building materials, and this is just the beginning. If you do not curb the beginning chaos in time, the negative factors will begin to overlap each other, causing more and more crisis consequences.

We know an example when a country, being in a worse situation, managed to prevent the collapse of transport and industry - this happened in 1941. The sudden perfidious attack of Nazi Germany demanded the highest exertion of forces from the country. Transport and industry were heavily burdened. Huge masses of troops, especially in the first weeks of the war, weapons, equipment and other supplies, had to be transported to the west of the country by railroads, and civilians, the wounded, factory equipment, and material assets were to be transported to the east. The Soviet Union managed to evacuate 8 million people, 2.5 thousand industrial enterprises, 1.5 thousand collective farms and state farms to the rear in less than six months. In new places, the evacuees were provided with housing, and enterprises after a short time began to produce products.

For the market, anarchy of production is a common condition. In more or less stable times, with an abundance of resources, the economy can work relatively well. However, any external perturbation, any tension brings this system out of balance and creates chaos.

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There was an offer to paint the passport
03/26/2022
What other "fresh ideas" can we expect from the bourgeois parliamentarians?


Deputy from United Russia, a member of the Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Sultan Khamzaev , proposed filling the passport of a Russian citizen with illustrations on the topic of significant historical and cultural events, Lenta reports . The people's choice wants to turn the document into a kind of "instrument for an excursion into culture and history", which, in his opinion, will be very useful for Russian youth.

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Passport painted by a child

It is supposed to insert into the document proving the identity of a citizen, pictures about the Great Patriotic War, space exploration, the Bolshoi Theater, commanders of different eras, sections on the geography and ethnography of Russia.

“In the main document of a citizen, historical, culturally significant events of our country should be illustrated. In the near future, together with the public, we will develop and propose our draft passport design,” the lawmaker shared his plans.
One can only guess about the scale of the plan. It is not yet clear in how many volumes the future document is planned, whether the “holy 90s” will be reflected in it, whether portraits of the “non-political” and beloved philosopher Vladimir Putin will be placed. Perhaps they will provide for the possibility of self-coloring illustrations, which will help to involve young people in studying the history and culture of the country, and increase the patriotism of the builders of modern Russia.
There are a huge number of serious problems in the country: a “special operation”, serious economic sanctions , entire industries stop their activities, the population is again experiencing a shortage of food and medicine, and a member of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption is discussing the design of a passport for educating young people. What else do you need to know about bourgeois parliamentarism?

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Post by blindpig » Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:07 pm

Freedom to the anti-fascists of Ukraine!
03/27/2022
Picket in Leningrad in support of Ukrainian Komsomol members

Activists of the RKSM(b) held a rally in Leningrad in support of members of the Leninist Komsomol of Ukraine, who is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, detained in Kyiv.


WFDY is a member of such United Nations structures as the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UNESCO.

According to the World Federation of Democratic Youth, the first secretary of the WFDY member organization, the Komsomol of Ukraine Mikhail Kononovich and his brother Oleksandr, who opposed the decommunization and fascisization of Ukraine and the country's entry into NATO, were arrested by the SBU in Kyiv. The Federation fears that their lives and health are in danger.

The RKSM(b) demands the immediate release of the anti-fascists. We invite readers to take part in the campaign and attach mock-ups of prepared posters.

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FSB crushed a Marxist circle in Ufa
03/27/2022
Stupidity or provocation?

Five members of a Marxist circle were taken into custody in Ufa . They are accused of "organizing a terrorist community." Among the detainees is Dmitry Chuvilin , a deputy of the State Council of Bashkiria. He went on a hunger strike. Four more members of the circle have so far been released on bail ... What is it: repression, stupidity or provocation?


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Marxist circle in Ufa. Screenshot from a video circulated by journalists

The arrests took place on March 25. In total, 9 people were detained, including a deputy of the Kurultai of Bashkiria from the Communist Party faction and coordinator of the Left Front movement Dmitry Chuvilin , 65-year-old Yuri Efimov , doctor of City Clinical Hospital No. 21 Alexey Dmitriev , activists Pavel Matisov and Rinat Burkeev . A day later, one of the Ufa district courts placed the five activists in custody for two months (until May 23). The investigation charges Matisov with “organization of a terrorist community and participation in it” (parts 1 and 2 of article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Dmitriev and Efimov with “public calls for terrorist activities and public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism”(part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the rest of the defendants - participation in the "terrorist community". The security forces believe that the Marxist circle in Ufa "planned a violent seizure of power . "

Four other members of the Marxist circle were also detained - Ildar Ataullin, Andrey Golovachev, K. Valiullin, R. Yusupov. They were released on bail. In addition, several other people were searched.

After the announcement of the preventive measure, Dmitry Chuvilin said that he considers what is happening to be political persecution and declares a hunger strike. At the same time, one of the local Telegram channels reports that Burkeev and Matisov have already pleaded guilty to the first charge.

Footage allegedly found during a search of weapons has been published on the Internet. Grenades and pistols are on display. It is impossible to say whether they really belong to the detainees or whether this is a provocation of the "servicemen". There is also an opinion that this is a sports equipment that is freely available. “Extremist literature” is also reported, but it remains unclear which of the literature included in the list of extremist materials is referred to.

The paucity of information makes it impossible to unequivocally judge what happened. According to some human rights activists , the special services of the Russian Federation do not disdain provocations. The dubious "Net case" has given rise to many claims of fabrication. Therefore, the version of the exemplary reprisal against the Marxist circle has a right to exist. On the other hand, knowing the level of development of the Russian left movement, it is impossible to discount the official version of the investigation. It is possible that some "hot heads" could commit rash acts or voice reckless intentions.

The situation is commented by Alexander Batov , a representative of the ROT FRONT:

We don't know what really happened there. But if, nevertheless, the version of the secret police is true, then we have to state: there were either fools or provocateurs in the circle. Didn't they study Lenin in the classes of the circle? Didn't they deduct from Lenin's works that the key to the radical reorganization of society is the labor movement? .. Everything has its time. Now is the time for patient propaganda and organizational work.

Speaking of this, we should not, of course, be deceived by what is happening in Russia. Soon the very reading of Marx or Lenin will become "extremism" and Marxist circles may be outlawed. We can clearly see that Russia is following in the footsteps of Ukraine ; the difference between the two countries is not qualitative, but purely quantitative. Nazi ideology has already won over our neighbors, monuments to Lenin have already been toppled, communist ideas have already been banned. And we have fans of Ilyin, Vlasov, Mannerheim, Solzhenitsyn have just begun all these processes. But the result will be the same.


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Post by blindpig » Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:06 pm

Food crisis: there will be bread and there will be hunger
03/28/2022
Unavailable food

Western politicians and journalists predict world hunger. Will this disaster affect Russia? Participants in the grain market come to a paradoxical (no) conclusion: there will be plenty of bread , but hunger is still possible. Prices for bread will be such that not everyone can buy it.

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The President of the Russian Grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky spoke about the situation with the global food crisis :

“About this [possible famine - Ed. ] a lot of talk from the UN and Western media and politicians. This has nothing to do with the presence or absence of grain resources. Because the latest forecasts - taking into account the risks of a special operation and drought in the United States - indicate that the world will receive a larger harvest than last year. But can consumption increase in the conditions of a one and a half times increase in prices? Of course not".

Regarding the government's statements about Russia's 100% supply of bread, Zlochevsky said:

“Security, yes, but accessibility? At this price, can the entire population buy this bread? Security and accessibility are far from the same thing... There should be targeted assistance to the poor in the purchase of food products. Let them rise in price - it is necessary to proportionally increase subsidies. If you don’t want to call it food cards, call it certificates.”

In fact, food cards are already operating in Russia, but so far in a pilot mode for a small number of low-income families. However, proposals to expand this experience are regularly heard in high offices.

The press also reports that Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Victoria Abramchenko instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade to work out measures together with retailers to prevent an abrupt increase in bread prices. She proposed to ensure "voluntary zero markup of retail chains" . The principle of voluntariness draws attention; whether the refusal of the business to remove price markups will have any consequences is not reported.

The situation when warehouses are bursting with bread, and people are starving, seems paradoxical for any sane person. But such is the structure of a market economy. On the one hand, there is an excess of products, on the other, hungry people. On the one hand, a lot of empty, uninhabited high-rise buildings, on the other, a lot of homeless people. On the one hand, there is an abundance of refined products, on the other, rising prices for gasoline. On the one hand, there is a huge need for skilled workers, on the other, mass unemployment. The market constantly generates and maintains these contradictions; without them, it simply cannot function.

You can take everything said indifferently. You can argue traditionally: this will not affect me. But the market feels completely different when it still touches you with its invisible hand. When you yourself become its victim: unemployed, homeless or hungry.

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Post by blindpig » Thu Mar 31, 2022 3:21 pm

Binding of domestic contracts to foreign currency is considered null and void
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March 31, 6:14 am

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A draft law is under practical consideration, which provides for the complete decoupling of domestic Russian contracts from the dollar (and other foreign currencies) and their conversion into rubles.

Binding of domestic contracts to foreign currency is considered null and void

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has developed a draft law on the prohibition of linking the prices of contracts for goods produced in the Russian Federation for the domestic market to exchange rates. The document will be submitted for consideration at a meeting of the Council under the President of Russia on codification and improvement of legislation, scheduled for March 31, RBC writes on Thursday, citing the meeting agenda.

As the newspaper writes, it follows from the text of the bill that the initiative prohibits determining the price of Russian contracts in relation to foreign currency or an indicator of exchange or over-the-counter indices on world commodity markets. This term of the contract is considered null and void.. The document implies amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which now directly allow linking the price of contracts to foreign currency and other indicators, while itself is implied in rubles.

Already concluded contracts will need to be changed within 30 days from the date of publication of the law. If the parties do not reach an agreement within this time, the execution of the contract will be automatically carried out at the exchange rate of the ruble or price indicators on world commodity markets as of January 1, 2022.

It follows from the explanatory note to the document that it was developed in accordance with measures to ensure the development of the Russian economy in the face of external sanctions pressure. In the press service of the government, RBC's questions were redirected to the FAS, which developed the document. The press service of the regulator noted that they continue to work on the initiative, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation assured the publication that the document had already been approved by the department. The newspaper also sent a request to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation about its position on the bill.

Research Center for Private Law (ICCP) them. S. S. Alekseeva under the President of the Russian Federation sent an opinion on the bill to the government, Lidia Mikheeva, chairman of its council, told RBC. According to her, now the initiative is being finalized, including with representatives of the Cabinet. In addition, ways to achieve its goals without amending the Civil Code are discussed.

Earlier, the Izvestiya newspaper reported that a number of sugar refineries offered food producers to make purchases at prices in dollars. According to the publication, we are talking about making payments in rubles, but at the exchange rate, which is relevant on the date of shipment of products. In this regard, the Rusbrand Association sent a letter to the FAS with a request to assess the situation and take appropriate measures. On March 17, the FAS opposed pegging the prices of contracts for goods produced in the Russian Federation for the domestic market to exchange rates and external price indicators.

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The federal antitrust agency conducts inspections due to a shortage of sugar
03/30/2022
Vaska listens yes eat

The Federal Antimonopoly Service has launched anti-cartel checks against the companies Skyfood, Trading House Nevskaya Bakaleya, Dary Polya, Sudarushka and Pangeya regarding the increase in sugar prices and the decrease in supply on the market. If violations of the law are detected, companies face a fine of up to 15% of annual revenue.

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After the disappearance of sugar in stores, the liberal pro-government media began to repeat their usual liberal incantations: the people themselves are to blame for everything. They say that after the start of a special military operation, everyone panicked and rushed to buy sugar, thus emptying the counters. True, such statements come into conflict with several other theses of liberal "scientists". Firstly, the favorite slogan-thesis was the statement that scarcity is a phenomenon inherent only in socialism, and under capitalism the invisible hand of the market will regulate everything by itself, growing demand will cause an increase in supply, and so on. However, the growth in demand for sugar did not lead to an increase in supply - sugar completely disappeared from stores. So this statement is false. Secondly, the liberal media have been blaming the people for all the troubles and failures for more than 30 years. Like, the people are bad, he is to blame for everything, here and now. However, were the Russian people so wrong when they started buying sugar for the future, in the light of the fact that there was a shortage of sugar? Meanwhile, there are objective reasons for the deficit: sugar production in 2021 decreased by 1.45 times compared to 2019. In addition, factors such as logistical chaos and the desire of businesses to cash in on what was happening led to the shortage.

The actions of the authorities in the current situation are indecisive. The investigation is likely to drag on for a long time, besides, there is currently no sufficient legal basis for limiting prices. The only clue may be proof of a cartel, but that has yet to be proven. During this time, business will have time to make a good profit, and citizens will become poorer. However, the authorities could defuse the situation by acting more decisively. For this, it is necessary, firstly, to create an appropriate legal framework that would make it possible to regulate prices at critical moments, up to their complete freezing, with the simultaneous introduction of a rationed supply of the most important types of goods. Secondly, to put sugar and other scarce goods from the state reserve on sale through state stores to the population according to established norms. Such measures are not impossible and they can be taken even now. We know with what haste authorities can adopt laws and regulations.

Meanwhile, the indecisiveness of the authorities may backfire on them. So far, only sugar has disappeared from the shelves. However, what will happen if the situation worsens and there are interruptions in the supply of other essential types of food (bread, meat, dairy products)? Here it is useful to recall that the year 1917 began with a general shortage of food and cases of famine in certain parts of the country.

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Post by blindpig » Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:03 pm

Manufacturer of equipment for cell therapy stops deliveries to Russia
04/01/2022
Sanctions hit the sick

The German company Miltenyi Biotec, a manufacturer of equipment and materials for cell therapy, announced the cessation of supplies to Russia due to the start of a special military operation in Ukraine. The remaining materials were left for the treatment of three or four patients.

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We note the rather dubious moral aspect of such a decision by a German company. If, for example, Bosch suspends the supply of auto parts to Russia, then this does not directly affect seriously ill people, including children. Here we are dealing with sanctions not against officials, military personnel or companies, but against individuals who are unlikely to participate in hostilities or other similar events.

Of course, not so many patients undergo this type of therapy, although the death of any person becomes a tragedy for his family and friends. At the same time, there are other types of medical care in which Russia has a critical dependence on imported equipment. In Russia, about 50,000 people undergo hemodialysis on a regular basis, and about 1 million people in one way or another need substitution therapy. Russia is 99% dependent on the import of hemodialysis machines and consumables for them, which are necessary for people with kidney damage. Of all imports, Germany and Japan account for 77% of products. So a ban on the supply of this equipment to Russia can lead to the collapse of the medical care chain for those in need of hemodialysis and put tens of thousands of people on the brink of death.

Meanwhile, this state of affairs was the result of a 30-year policy of the Russian authorities. The USSR produced almost all the necessary equipment, including devices for hemodialysis, and quite modern for its time. However, this production became a victim of the policy “why do we need our own when you can buy abroad”, carried out for almost 30 years in Russia.

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Serial production of the "Main aircraft of the 21st century" is once again postponed
04/02/2022

There's still time to meet the deadline

Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov lamented that problems with the supply of foreign-made components are pushing back the start of mass production of the domestic MS-21 airliner for another 1-2 years, RBC reports . In the meantime, the Russian aviation industry will try to make up for the shortage of the fleet with Tu-214 and Il-96-400 aircraft. Since 2014, 10 and 5 of these have been produced, respectively.

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MS-21 in the assembly shop

“The ban on the supply of components, which were present in large quantities and included in the design of our two flagship models Superjet 100 and MS-21, makes us actively and dynamically organize work on accelerated import substitution,” said the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

In 2020 , President Vladimir Putin complained that the bad faith of foreign suppliers was hindering the production of the flagship of the Russian aviation industry.

This is not the first time that the MS-21 serial production dates have been postponed. Exactly a year ago, Yuri Ivanovich already shared the same news with the public. And the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov in 2014 generally assured the citizens of Russia that everything was going according to schedule, and the MS-21 would be put into production as early as 2017 .

But it's too early to panic. The “effective owners” have almost 80 more years to finally “replace imports” of components, and the descendants of Borisov and Manturov did not have to rename MS-21 to MS-22.

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Glazyev supported the idea of ​​"people's enterprises"
04/03/2022
The economist proposed to transfer the stopped enterprises to labor collectives

The well-known economist Sergei Glazyev proposed transferring Russian enterprises that stopped work due to sanctions into the ownership of labor collectives. True, they did not propose any specific mechanisms. The idea expressed by Glazyev is very similar to the idea of ​​"people's enterprises", which is defended by entrepreneur Pavel Grudinin and the leaders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . Can this idea be considered viable?

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Sergey Glazyev

The idea of ​​transferring some enterprises to the ownership of labor collectives Glazyev expressed in an interview with RIA Novosti. In particular, speaking about enterprises that have suspended work in Russia due to sanctions, the economist said :

“I would transfer such enterprises to labor collectives. No one else is interested in keeping jobs. But this is the main criterion that is proposed to be introduced as an obligation for those who claim to manage abandoned enterprises.

Now Sergey Glazyev is the Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). Previously, he was known as a relatively progressive, albeit inconsistent, politician. However, over time, Glazyev's position increasingly manifested shyness on the verge of escaping from reality. For example, in 2019 , in the Zavtra newspaper, he suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would authorize the mass transfer of Jews from Israel to “the lands of the South-East of Ukraine, cleared of the Russian population . ” In 2020 , he supported the so-called "new chronology" of Fomenko, which is based on falsifications and fraud, but is very beneficial for the propaganda of the "Russian World" among the most ignorant segments of the population.

The idea of ​​"people's enterprises" is constantly promoted by the Communist Party. However, in essence, "people's enterprises" under capitalism are not viable. In order to survive, they need to compete in the market with "normal" enterprises, whose owners, in order to reduce costs, save on workers' wages, on their health and safety, and on working conditions. The "People's Enterprise" cannot afford this, otherwise it will just as well become an ordinary enterprise, where the result is achieved by squeezing all the strength out of the workers. This topic is discussed in more detail on our YouTube channel.

Additionally, it should be borne in mind that no clear mechanisms for the transfer of enterprises have been proposed. If the transfer of ownership of the labor collective will be carried out through corporatization of the 1992 model, then this will inevitably lead to a stratification of the owners and a gradual concentration of shares in a small group of them. These people will become the real owners of the factory, and the rest of the workforce will return to its previous state.

Truly people's enterprises are possible and effective when the economy of the whole society is built not for profit, but for the growth of the well-being of the entire population.

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On the situation with civil aviation.
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April 2, 22:35

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On the situation with civil aviation.

On March 31, a twice adjourned meeting with the President of the Russian Federation took place.

Dry squeeze of solutions:

- foreign aircraft will not be given to lessors
- they will fly in Russia and cover the domestic flight network
- all of them were forcibly transferred to the Russian register (currently - about 800 aircraft)
- and reinsured by Russian insurers
- a solution for spare parts and maintenance was found , but it is not publicly announced
- in the long term, a bet was made on its own aircraft production
- MS-21 is shifted "to the right" by 1-2 years (due to additional import substitution)
- Rostec promises up to 500 aircraft of "large" models by 2030
- in the medium term, mass production of the Tu-214 and Il-96-400 will begin, this is already in 2022-23.
- the "air cashback" program has been launched (i.e. compensation for part of the cost of air tickets on domestic flights. Financing will be allocated in the amount of 100 billion rubles)

More details here:
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Post by blindpig » Fri Apr 08, 2022 2:42 pm

Two articles by one propagandist
04/06/2022

On the methods of Kremlin journalism

When we are told about the information war, it is true. The information war constantly accompanies both the real and the "cold" war between states. The ruling circles of the United States, the European Union, Ukraine, Russia and other countries pour tons of slops, lies, artfully woven propaganda on each other every day.

But this is only half the truth. The other half is that even in the most peaceful times, the information war does not stop. Moreover, not only between states, but also within states. The authorities of each country seek to control (more precisely, manipulate) public opinion, inspire their citizens with certain thoughts, ideas, values. In short, in each state, an information "special operation" is constantly being conducted to indoctrinate its own people.

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The generals of this war are well known in Russia. Solovyov, Kiselyov and several other major promoters of television and YouTube. Less noticeable is a large staff of "fighters" of a smaller caliber - publicists, TV presenters, bloggers, journalists and other "lieutenants" of the information war. Finally, their products are distributed, liked, commented on by ordinary "fighters" - citizens whose consciousness has fallen into the zone of destruction of propaganda charges. Their critical thinking sleeps, giving way to faith and emotion.

Today we will talk about two episodes of the information war waged by the government of the Russian Federation against its people. These are two articles written by the same author and published less than a month apart on the RIA Novosti website .

The first article is called very eloquently: "The Offensive of Russia and the New World" . It was published on February 26, 2022 , but then it was promptly hidden. Now you will understand why.

The article is devoted to the crushing victory of the Russian Federation over the unfinished Bandera regime. In the most pompous tones, the author tells us about the birth of a new world, a new era, a new period in history, and the like. "Russia is restoring its unity" , - this is how they say about the results of the "special operation".

If you think that unity is about Donbass, then you are mistaken. Donbass is never mentioned in the article! It's about Ukraine. Intoxicated with imperial dreams, the author himself makes it clear to us: “...Ukraine has returned to Russia. This does not mean that its statehood will be liquidated, but it will be reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world . Why not rebuild if you won? And if anyone in Ukraine disagrees, then woe to the vanquished.

In general, the entire article consists of pompous imperial phrase-mongering. For example, the author proudly asks: “Did anyone in the old European capitals, in Paris and Berlin, seriously believe that Moscow would give up Kiev?” So says the one who has already taken Kyiv and mockingly looks at the confused Western "partners". Moreover, Kyiv, like the whole of Ukraine, is viewed here not as a subject, but as an object - an object that can be taken from the table and hidden in a pocket.

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And what about the Ukrainians? To them, who enthusiastically welcomed the Russian liberators, the author generously grants them the opportunity to renounce their nationality and call themselves Russians. “Russia is restoring its historical completeness, gathering the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians ,” the author reports. Yes, the Belarusians are now also not a nation, but they apparently submitted themselves, without any “special operations”. According to the author, the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples are in fact one “temporarily divided” Russian people, this is a “split” of the Russian people. Each of these phrases is a wonderful gift for Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists, since with each of these phrases the Russian propagandist humiliates the national dignity of the fraternal peoples.

The article ends with high-flown arguments about the problems of the West, about the contradictions between the "old" Europe and the "Anglo-Saxons". The new world order emerges "through the sprawling veil of Anglo-Saxon globalization," the author foretells. Russia has shown that "the era of Western global domination can be considered completely and finally over . "

... In general, the whole article is a balm for the soul of any Russian jingoistic patriot who sincerely rejoices at any "bending" of his neighbors and just as sincerely does not notice the poverty prevailing in the country.

However, when the article was published, something went wrong.

It turned out that many Ukrainians are not enthusiastic about the prospect of such a “liberation”. It turned out that the Ukrainian army is not going to lay down their arms. It turned out that the Bandera people are not shy about using vile tricks and are generally desperately snapping. The "special operation" only helped them rally the Ukrainian people around the defense of their country. The Russian army is stuck.

Therefore, the article was hastily removed and pretended that nothing happened. But the Internet remembers everything.

On March 22, when the “little victorious” had already clearly failed, an article by the same author was published on the RIA Novosti website. The name, frankly, is clickbait: "Russia of the future - forward to the USSR" . Is the dream of Kurginyan and other guards coming true? Will Russia go straight there, to the new Soviet Union?

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No, no, the author immediately reassures the reader: “We will again live in the USSR, but not in the one that the anti-Soviet fears or that the communists dream of. No, we are starting to build a just, solidary, sovereign Russia. Reviving the best that is embedded in our national code, strengthening and creating what will allow us to live in conscience and mind . At first they were lured by an abbreviation, and then they explained that it was just a play on words.

But something familiar emanates from these words. "National code" ... what is it? And the author continues to talk about "the spirit of Russian history, the spirit of our ancestors . " Why, this is exactly like the reasoning of the German Nazis! It was they who justified the superiority of their race with a special "spirit", a special "code" and other "features" bestowed from birth. You are better than others just because you are a German (American, Ukrainian, Russian ... you need to enter).

And these people can seriously talk about denazification? Yes, they themselves need this painful procedure.

A significant part of the article is devoted to the obsessive opposition of the current Russian realities and the dashing 90s of the last century. The author diligently explains that it was very bad then, but now it is a completely different matter. "Post-Soviet state capitalism carried the original sin of the thieves' privatization of state property, when the nouveaux riches and temporary workers decided that from now on they are the power and masters of life here . " But then everything changed, because "Vladimir Putin deprived the oligarchy of power . "

Really? Deprived? And in whose interests was the pension reform carried out then? In whose interests is the progressive scale of taxation constantly blocked? Into whose pockets does the rent flow from the sale of Russia's national wealth flow? Who receives the most profitable contracts from the state? Oh, we know these people. There aren't many of them. And all as one - modest workers, never oligarchs ...

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Both Yeltsin and Putin are just top managers of the ruling class. An individual, even a president, cannot remove power from those he actually serves. The whole difference between Yeltsin and Putin is a reflection of the difference between the tasks of the ruling class in the 1990s and later. In the 90s, the oligarchs did the main thing: they took away and divided public property. Hence the need for maximum freedom, in the "parade of sovereignties", hence the gangster chaos that the 90s are remembered for. But then, when almost everything was taken away and divided, a new task arose before capital - to gain a foothold on the achieved frontiers, to strengthen its dominance, to strengthen its power. It was necessary to put an end to the freemen, to establish a strong, centralized power. A change of figures was required. And it happened.

But back to the analysis of the article. The author has already been convicted of being addicted to the “national code”. What other ideas, besides a transparent hint of Nazism, will this material bring us? It turns out that the main thing that will help Russia endure all the tests is “solidarity and conciliarity” .

The author immediately explains without hesitation: “Sobornost means joint, common, embracing everyone: from the rich to the poor, from the old to the young. Shared decision-making, common cause and, most importantly, common ideals and understanding of values. General creed" . In other words, we are all in the same boat. Both rich and poor. And the oligarch Abramovich, and the locksmith Petrov. Let one gobble up lobsters, because thousands of his workers eat their last bread without salt. The main thing is that the ideals and values ​​are the same.

This is called solidarity . Or, simply put, fascism . The ideology of Benito Mussolini, with which he persuaded the Italian workers to rally with the Italian bourgeoisie. Why and for what - we already know.

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Further, the author tries to talk about social justice, but he does it awkwardly. Little does he know about the life of ordinary Russians. For example, he writes: “Justice is such a socio-economic way of life in which the worker, creator, producer, engineer, inventor, creator is encouraged . ” Has he really forgotten the famous words of the first Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko ? Recall that in 2007 (not under Yeltsin, not in the dashing 90s, but under the current president!) This statesman said that “the shortcoming of the Soviet education system was an attempt to form a human creator, and now the task is to nurture qualified consumer". And we see how this line has been steadily pursued over the past decades. We see that in modern Russia, show business stars, businessmen, TV presenters, anyone ... but not creators, not workers, not creators are held in high esteem.

But the author continues: “A teacher, a doctor, a warrior are not state employees and security officials, these are professions respected by our people and valued by the state . ” I wonder what the doctors of ordinary budget (even Moscow) polyclinics would say to this, which recycle every day, and then go to their areas to seriously ill patients. What would the “covid” doctors who were swindled with allowances say. What would our teachers say, who from dawn until late at night sit over notebooks for a penny salary. What would these teachers say, who are forced to take two or more rates in order to receive any decent salary.

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No, the author lives in some other Russia...

There is still a lot of interesting things in the article (like the positive embellishment of the word "autocracy"), but we will focus on just one more aspect. Speaking about the “national code” and “sovereign Russia” (straight in the spirit of the NOD movement), the author conjures: “We have no alternative: no other Russia will stand the test in the era of global storm and stress . ” And again misleads the reader.

There have been many states in history built according to the recipes of sovereignty, the national code, and the primacy of the spirit. Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, Spain under General Franco, Portugal under Salazar, Chile under Pinochet… But spiritual bonds did not help them. Solidarist regimes collapsed either under the blows of those they themselves attacked, or under the weight of internal contradictions.

But there is one - one! is an example of a country that really turned out to be able to withstand the terrible era of global storm and stress. Which showed unprecedented growth rates during the years of the "Great Depression", which ran a whole century in one decade and was able to survive in the most terrible war in the history of mankind. This is the Soviet Union . Soviet Russia. A truly sovereign power that developed according to its own plans, lived and worked for itself, for its people.

Now Russia is facing the same tough pressure as the Soviet Union. But, unfortunately, modern Russia is not the Soviet Union. Nothing. But no other Russia will withstand these severe tests ...

Alexander Batov

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PS A few words about the author. Who is this great guardian of Russia, an adherent of the "spirit of our ancestors"? This is Pyotr Akopov , an ethnic Armenian, a Muscovite, a regular columnist for RIA Novosti. A fan of Donald Trump, by the way, judging by the cap.

Perhaps these strokes complete the bright image of the “Russian patriot” in the best possible way.

https://www.rotfront.su/dve-stati-odnogo-propagandista/

There is indeed growing Russian jingoism in the coverage of the Ukraine from Russian and some Donbass sources, sentiments of this sort have no place in socialism and Rotfront is absolutely correct in this criticism.

Historical materialism tells us that nationalism(as opposed to patriotism) is a product of capitalist society and is utterly opposed by socialist solidarity. The capitalist propagandists have always confounded the two, the old 'equivalent evil' approach, a variation on 'Stalin=Hitler'

We, on the outside, have other considerations: US hegemony and it's employment of Nazis in Ukraine to achieve it's foreign policy goals. These are not contradictory stratagems but rather complimentary.

In this division of labor we all have heavy lifting to do but so far we are not doing our duty.
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Named the reason for the increase in prices for fish
04/09/2022

There is no reason to lower prices yet

Director General of Information Agency for Fisheries LLC Alexander Savelyev explained that the reason for the increase in fish prices is the unwillingness of the owners of fishing companies to put up with a decrease in their profits, Lenta reports . The aggravation of the geopolitical situation and the pandemic have seriously affected the volume of fish exports, which will naturally affect the price tags in Russian stores.

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“Half of Russian fish used to be exported. Now these volumes have been significantly reduced, and the export prospect is not very visible, ” the expert said in an interview with Sputnik radio station.

True, prices for pollock will not creep up as rapidly as for other types of fish, the head of the news agency of the Russians reassured. He also hopes that someday filling the domestic market will lead to lower prices.

We have never doubted that our businessmen only aim to fill their pockets. For this, plants, factories, steamships, airplanes and everything else created by the labor of millions of Soviet citizens were taken over. They are not interested in supplying citizens with quality food at affordable prices . The decrease in incomes of the owners of factories, newspapers, ships, as usual, is compensated by ordinary workers, tightening their belts even more.

Russians should not expect regular price cuts while the industry is in private hands. This requires a completely different structure of the economy. And it needs to be fought for.

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Russia has found a replacement for imported aircraft
04/08/2022
Will build Russian

The United Aircraft Building Company (UAC) plans to build 70 Tu-214 aircraft with Russian PS-90 engines in 8 years. The production of Tu-214 aircraft is carried out in small batches at the Kazan Aviation Plant. The need to replace imported aircraft arose after the imposition of sanctions at the end of February 2022.

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About 287 Airbas 319/320/321 aircraft and another 217 Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 aircraft are currently in operation in Russia , which need to be replaced by Tu-214. For a complete replacement, it is necessary to produce not 70, but 504 aircraft - 63 aircraft per year. Unfortunately, the construction of exactly 70 aircraft is due not to the degree of need for them, but to the capabilities of the Russian aircraft industry and related industries. Eight or nine aircraft a year are the real opportunities for Russian industry.

This state of affairs has developed after 30 years of reforms in Russia, which brought the high-tech sectors of the Russian economy to a dilapidated state. All these years, Russian aviation was supplied mainly through imports. The result was a crisis in Russian aviation caused by the imposition of sanctions. So far, the consequences of the ban on the supply of products to Russia are still weakly felt, but over time, the number of shipments will begin to decline, and prices will rise.

The increase in the cost of flights, as well as the emergency deployment of aircraft production, will affect the well-being of workers who will pay out of their own pockets for emergency measures to overcome the crisis that occurred as a result of the short-sighted policy of the authorities.

https://www.rotfront.su/v-rossii-nashli ... nym-samol/

Sevastopol has no money for refugees
04.04.2022
The governor intends to ask for help from Moscow

During a visit to Sevastopol by Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, the governor of the federal city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, complained about the inability to provide assistance to Ukrainian refugees from the regional budget. At the same time, refugees are asked in Crimea not to come on the eve of the tourist season.

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At the volunteer headquarters “We are together. Sevastopol, the governor showed Moskalkova how local activists help refugees. In total, according to the governor, after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, ten thousand people arrived in the city. The local budget does not have enough money to accommodate them, provide food and medical care, so Mikhail Razvozhaev intends to "apply for federal support."

In addition, the authorities of Crimea, a constituent entity of the Russian Federation bordering Sevastopol, appealed to the Russian government with a request to exclude the region from the number of subjects of the country that should receive refugees from Ukraine, since a record of solvent tourists is expected on the peninsula in the summer, they write Argumenty Nedeli. Crimea".

“The tourist season is expected with the maximum filling of the objects of the sanatorium and hotel complex, and asks not to consider the allocation of quotas for the Republic of Crimea for the accommodation of citizens of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, DRN, LPR and stateless persons,” - Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Crimea.

For refugees, Russia guarantees a minimum of one hundred rubles a day, and upon registration with an employment center - 800 rubles, plus an allowance in the amount of one minimum wage. Also, separately, by order of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, refugees will be paid ten thousand rubles each from the country's Reserve Fund.

Refugees can count on accommodation and meals in temporary accommodation centers, free medical care, placement of children in schools and kindergartens, as well as employment in a Russian company, the FederalPress news agency notes .

Behind the words of Governor Razvozhaev and the Crimean authorities are the strong demands of local businesses not to interfere with making money. The fate of refugees is an extra cost that businessmen are not required to bear. Therefore, the leadership of the region is trying to solve the problem with the help of volunteers - caring people - parasitizing on their humane attitude towards their neighbor. The slogan "We are together" remains false and toxic.

https://www.rotfront.su/u-sevastopolya- ... ezhentsev/

More like the USA every day...How long, comrades?


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Russia will not nationalize foreign enterprises yet
04/11/2022
Scared and enough

The Russian authorities have put on pause the adoption of a bill on the introduction of external management in foreign companies that have announced their withdrawal from the country or suspended their activities, Izvestia writes . Foreign companies continue to maintain employees and do not terminate lease contracts. In addition, the authorities recognize that in the event of nationalization, they will not be able to ensure effective management.

One of Izvestiya's interlocutors said that many companies that announced the suspension of activities "until the normalization of the foreign policy situation" plan to resume work in our country as early as May-June. The same "IKEA" does not sell stocks located in wholesale distribution centers.

In social networks, employees of the Swedish company write that they continue to go to work, take inventory, and so on. The exchange and return departments continue to operate.

Also, an anonymous representative of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, in a conversation with Izvestia, said that the development of the bill "stalled", including because it became clear: "we are unlikely to be able to manage companies the way the owners did."

“We won’t be able to make a hamburger at the price set by McDonald’s,” from an interview with an anonymous official to Izvestia.

It is no secret that foreign companies bring technology, logistics solutions, advanced methods of planning, management and control to Russia. With their departure, the Russian economy is thrown back decades.

Currently, not every Russian businessman is ready to "play for the long haul", especially without state support. By definition, a state consisting of raw materials magnates and ossified bureaucrats cannot provide quality support. The current elite, which has been plundering the country for the past thirty years, has destroyed education, medicine and social infrastructure - those cornerstones without which an effective national economy cannot be built.

It is not surprising that the officials themselves, who grow rich on primitive raw material rent, admit their inability to conduct business in the way that modern technology and science require.

Without the nationalization of natural resources and means of production, finance, trade and the introduction of a planned economy, along with education reform, the Russian economy will remain a dwarf periphery with a poor population.

https://www.rotfront.su/rossiya-poka-ne ... alizirova/

People's money will save Russian Railways
04/10/2022
And save the CEO's salary

The government will allocate 250 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) for the purchase of Russian Railways shares. The funds will be directed, among other things, to the development of railway infrastructure and rolling stock. This will ensure the smooth operation of a number of sectors of the economy. However, the Government has no questions for General Director Oleg Belozerov.

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The website of the Government of the Russian Federation notes that the decision on additional capitalization was made as part of a plan of priority actions to ensure the development of the Russian economy in the face of external sanctions.

The NWF is funded from the federal budget.

At the same time, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin did not raise the issue of the competence of the state company's leaders, whose management results led to a decrepit railway infrastructure, worn-out rolling stock and a deteriorating situation for workers. The result of the company's activities was the need to save it at the expense of taxpayers.

Oleg Belozerov himself , who has been the General Director of Russian Railways since 2015, officially receives an average of 200 million rubles annually for his activities, plus remuneration by decision of the Board of Directors (the latter in 2019 was more than 200 million rubles). According to the corporate newspaper Gudok for 2021, the average monthly salary at Russian Railways was about 800 thousand rubles a year. That is, one Belozerov receives 250 times more than an ordinary employee of the company.

“I am proud that I am part of the railway team”, - From the speech of Oleg Belozerov with representatives of the labor collectives of the Sverdlovsk Railway.

The ongoing collapse of the railways has long been the talk of the town: normative acts divorced from reality, mutual responsibility, nepotism, bribery and oppression of the most disenfranchised workers. In social networks, citizens give an unbiased assessment of the activities of the manager Belozerov and railways in general, providing the Government of the Russian Federation with the opportunity to soberly assess the situation in the strategic industry.

https://www.rotfront.su/narodnye-dengi-spasut-rzhd/

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The Russian Revolution of 2022 – ‘Capitalism in One Country’
Originally published: Dances with Bears by John Helmer (April 10, 2022 ) - Posted Apr 12, 2022

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Now that the U.S. and the NATO allies have taken from the Russian oligarchs their cash in foreign banks, their mansions, their boats and planes, and blocked the export of all private and corporate Russian capital abroad, Russia is freer to decide how to organize the capital investment of the economy. Freer, that’s to say, than Russia was when the Clinton Administration installed Boris Yeltsin and his cronies in the Kremlin at the end of 1991; destroyed the parliament in 1993, and rigged Yeltsin’s re-election in 1996.

Freer too than Russia has been under Vladimir Putin’s policy of deoffshoreization–that policy fell through a loophole in 2015. The price of their combined failures over thirty years has been more than one trillion dollars. That’s the sum of Russian capital outflow which started in 1992 and accelerated since 2000.

In the calculation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Russia has been the only example in the world of an economy in which domestic economic growth has failed to reverse capital outflow, and to attract capital to return. Privatization in Russia has also been unique because it has accelerated the rate of outflow of domestic funds, enlarging the gap between domestic outflow and foreign inflow. Predictably, this has led to the accumulation of a bigger Russian capital economy offshore than the domestic capital economy (except for housing); and a level of inequality of incomes which is today worse for Russians than it was during the last decade of tsarist rule ending in the world war and the revolution of 1917.

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The Tsargrad headline on April 4, 2022, says: “WEEP, EUROPE! MISHUSTIN RETURNS THE RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET TO THE RUSSIANS”. Source: https://tsargrad.tv/

Not so predictably, under the conditions of the war of the U.S. and its allies to confiscate the offshore economy and destroy the domestic economy entirely, the Russian revolution of 2022 has commenced. It has begun with the passage through the State Duma last week of the new law to terminate all Russian share listings on foreign exchanges, and reorganize the Moscow stock exchange accordingly. Entitled “On Amendments to the Federal Law On Joint Stock Companies and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation”, and running for 22 pages, the revolution doesn’t start until Article 4 on page 14, buried under a series of articles revising the regulations for public company audits and accounts.

Also buried in the revolutionary new law is Section 9 of Article 6 on page 20. This provides the Russian government with the discretionary power to issue exceptions to the new law and allow foreign share listings, circulation and trade of securities for Russian companies which apply.

The third reading version of the new law which was voted by the State Duma last week can be read here. The bill had initially been presented to parliament last November when it was an uncontroversial, unnoticed measure dealing with auditors and accountants. It was then substantially revised in March to become the vehicle for a capitalist revolution.

The Tsargrad headline on April 4, 2022, says: “WEEP, EUROPE! MISHUSTIN RETURNS THE RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET TO THE RUSSIANS”. Source: https://tsargrad.tv/

“The government of [Prime Minister] Mikhail Mishustin,” reported Tsargrad, the popular internet and video news broadcaster,

has prepared a bill that will become truly epoch-making in the history of the development of the domestic stock market. According to the Cabinet’s idea, Russian companies will lose the right to place their shares on foreign exchanges. Those which are still trading there will be obliged to return their securities to Russia. At the same time, there is no monetary compensation for foreigners. The only chance for them to keep their shares is to get a similar number on the Moscow Stock Exchange.

And there is one important nuance here. After making amendments to the legislation, it is no longer possible to withdraw dividends abroad. Most likely, in the very near future we will witness the decolonization of the domestic stock market. Hardly anyone doubts that Mikhail Vladimirovich’s proposals will be passed in the State Duma–the liberal monetarists have practically no support left.

This appeared on April 4. Asked that day to confirm what they knew of Mishustin’s stock market legislation, Anataoly Aksakov, chairman of Duma Committee on Financial Markets (Just Russia, Chuvashia) said he hadn’t heard of it. The spokesman for the Duma’s Communist Party faction said the same thing. Two days after the Tsargrad bulletin, the text of the new legislation was published.

Tsargrad, owned by Konstantin Malofeev (Malofeyev), announced it, not as a revolution but as a “complete reformatting”–полное переформатирование. Malofeev (Malofeyev) is a committed supporter of the Donbass republics since 2014 and of the special military operation. He is also anti-Communist and advocates the restoration of the monarchy.

As backers of Novorussia go, Malofeev (right) was sanctioned a little later than the others by the U.S. in November 2014. Last week he became the first major Russian sanctions target to be hit by a U.S. criminal prosecution, announced by the Justice Department and the Manhattan prosecutor on April 6. The indictment charges:

Konstantin Malofeyev is closely tied to Russian aggression in Ukraine, having been determined by OFAC to have been one of the main sources of financing for the promotion of Russia-aligned separatist groups operating in the sovereign nation of Ukraine. The United States sanctions on Malofeyev prohibit him from paying or receiving services from United States citizens, or from conducting transactions with his property in the United States. But as alleged, he systematically flouted those restrictions for years after being sanctioned. The Indictment unsealed today shows this Office’s commitment to the enforcement of laws intended to hamstring those who would use their wealth to undermine fundamental democratic processes. This Office will continue to be a leader in the Justice Department’s work to hold accountable actors who would support flagrant and unjustified acts of war.

Tsargrad was interpreting the potential of the new law as a permanent revolution. The reality, as interpreted by the market media, was different–a temporary fix by Central Bank and government officials for the collapse of share prices of listed Russian companies on international and Moscow stock exchanges on February 24, at the start of the military operation.

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There was a partial recovery of share prices on the Moscow exchange the next day, but on February 28 the Central Bank suspended share trading altogether. In the U.S. on the same day the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ announced a temporary halt to trading for Russian companies listed on those exchanges.

On March 28 the Moscow stock exchange reopened for limited trading hours restricted to thirty companies.

Days earlier, the Russian edition of Forbes had reported Central Bank sources as saying “the Russian stock market may open in a new format. The Bank of Russia is discussing the possibility of creating two markets–for residents inside Russia and for non-residents outside of it, sources told Forbes.”

In short, Forbes was told, a temporary measure under Central Bank control.

The Central Bank is discussing the possibility of creating two equity markets–onshore for residents and offshore for non-residents. Three financiers told Forbes about this. According to one of the interlocutors of Forbes, this is necessary in order to prevent panic among Russian investors after the opening of exchanges, when foreign holders of securities of Russian issuers will massively withdraw from assets.

According to a second Forbes source, Type C accounts will be used to implement this mechanism, to which non-residents’ securities will be credited. At the same time, non-residents, according to the source, will include all foreign ‘subsidiaries’ of Russian brokers. Another Forbes interlocutor familiar with the discussion says that the decision on whether to recognize the ‘subsidiaries’ of Russian brokers as residents or non-residents has not yet been made. They can be recognized by both, he says. ‘This measure is currently being discussed and will probably be implemented,’ Alexey Timofeev, president of the National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR), told Forbes. He believes that it is bad to divide the market, but in conditions of limited transactions between residents and non-residents there is no other way out. ‘If the market is open right now, then most likely it will open without non-residents at all. So the market has a choice–to leave non-residents without trading at all or give them the opportunity to trade in a separate compartment. In any case, the solution of this problem should not delay the opening of the market for residents. When the market feels more confident, the currency control measures can be lifted and there will be no need to divide the market,’ Timofeev stressed.

‘They will actually create a safe haven for Russian investors, which will be cut off from the raging sea of a real market where foreign investors will trade. This is very much like the so-called Forex kitchen, where quotes are formed no one know’s how–they are invented by a dealer without reference to the real market,’ says financial adviser Natalia Smirnova. ‘Who will be found in this backwater, who will provide liquidity and maintain quotes, is unknown,’ she continues, defining the situation as an ‘artificial coma’. In her opinion, this means the absence of foreign shares as a class, since they are difficult to imagine in such a market. On the other hand, it is better than that the market will not open at all, since in this case only deposits and real estate will remain, and we will return to the 1990s, and in their first half,’ Smirnova sums up.

Vladimir Kreindel, Executive Director of FinEx Plus Management Company, is not so pessimistic. ‘This is a forced measure, which is being taken due to the fact that the markets are broken and there is no way to function in the usual old mode, given that the market is divided into completely local securities and ADRs [American Depositary Receipts], the issuers of which are Russian companies registered abroad. The temporary fragmentation of the market is not so much a plan as an inevitability. However, a working market with a reduced number of issuers is in any case better than a frozen market,’ he says. Kreindel believes this may be a positive result for the allocation of capital and the release of liquidity. He also concluded that the single market is still far away.

Forbes and its stock market sources had not read the text of the new law which did not appear until April 6. Vedomosti, the Moscow business newspaper, reported that day that the proposed law had been fully passed by the Duma and was awaiting an upper house vote and then presidential signature. In its interpretation, the law required Russian companies to list their shares in Moscow, and to cancel parallel listings in international markets through depositary receipts.

The text of the new law appears to be clear and categorical. At Article 6 Section 1 it declares that “placement and (or) organization of circulation of shares of Russian issuers outside the Russian Federation by means of placement of securities of foreign issuers certifying rights in respect of shares of Russian issuers in accordance with foreign law is not allowed.” Section 2:

Unless otherwise provided by Section 9 of this Article, from the date of entry into force of this Article, circulation of shares of Russian issuers outside the Russian Federation, the organization of circulation of which before the date of entry into force of this Article was carried out by placing securities of foreign issuers certifying rights in respect of shares of Russian issuers, in accordance with foreign law, is terminated.

Section 3 adds:

No later than five working days from the date of entry into force of this article, Russian issuers are obliged to take necessary and sufficient actions aimed at terminating contracts on the basis of which, prior to the date of entry into force of this article, securities of foreign issuers certifying rights in respect of shares of Russian issuers were placed in accordance with foreign law, and no later than five working days after the commission of such actions to submit to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation information on the commission of such actions with the attachment of supporting documents.

This appears to end the Russian company practice of raising capital on foreign markets and selling shares through offshore depositary receipts, linked to the original Russian shares. Initial public offerings (IPOs) outside Russia and secondary trading of the depositary receipts are now banned. Also prohibited by the new law are issues of Russian company debt through bonds or debt notes which are sold to the public or through financial institutions and traded on international exchanges.

One of the conventional evasions or loopholes in the existing market legislation has been for Russian operating companies to issue foreign shares and debt through offshore subsidiaries, and for their debt obligations and dividends to be channelled through these entities. Although the language of the new law refers to “Russian issuers”, the intention of the new measure appears to close the foreign subsidiary channel. Added to the bans on foreign currency payments abroad already introduced at the beginning of March–read for the details–the new law seems to have put an end to capital outflow and the offshore Russian economy.

Except for the small print of Section 2, which mentions Section 9, and Section 9 itself.

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This says:

The Government of the Russian Federation shall establish the procedure according to which a decision may be taken to continue circulation outside the Russian Federation of shares of Russian issuers whose circulation before the date of entry into force of this Article was carried out by placing, in accordance with foreign law, securities of foreign issuers certifying rights in respect of shares of Russian issuers.

In other words, the operation of Russian offshore capital flows will be allowed to continue without the new restrictions so long as a government official issues an exemption lifting the ban, according to a “procedure” which hasn’t been regulated in the new law, and may never be published.

The only guarantee that this loophole will not be opened by the Russian oligarchs to continue their business as usual is not Russian law but the Justice Department in Washington.

https://mronline.org/2022/04/12/the-rus ... e-country/

Well, ya can't hardly call that a 'revolution', what is needed is a 'counter-counter revolution' and a return to socialism. It would be sweet irony if US aggression against Russia resulted in that.
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Post by blindpig » Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:54 pm

Investigate the activities of Chubais
April 15, 19:43

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Investigate the activities of Chubais

The head of Rosnano, Sergey Kulikov, turned to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the company's work for 2010-2020, when Anatoly Chubais led it. RBC writes about this with reference to Kulikov's letter to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.
As Kulikov notes, in 2010-2020, the volume of external borrowings by Rosnano exceeded 290 billion rubles. By the end of 2020, the company had a debt of over 146 billion rubles, and maintenance costs in 2010-2021 amounted to 126 billion rubles.
The letter clarifies that in 2016, the amount of Rusnano's liabilities exceeded the value of the company's assets, as a result, "there were signs of insolvency (bankruptcy)" and the "property insufficiency of the company" became apparent.
According to RBC, on the basis of this information, the current head of Rosnano asked the prosecutor general to check the company's activities during the leadership of Chubais.

https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/9909 ... ais-rabota - zinc

Commercially, "suddenly" it turns out that the "effective manager" has been engaged in bringing one of the state corporations to bankruptcy for a long time. Nobody could have imagined that this was possible.
As has become fashionable lately, the issue of investigating the activities of the defendant was taken care of after he fled the country. It would be the other way around, to conduct investigations and imprison before such defendants escape over the hill.

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A large mine was closed in Kuzbass
04/14/2022
All employees of the enterprise are laid off

The Butovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region, which had accumulated debts, was declared bankrupt. The company stopped coal mining and laid off all employees. About four hundred families were left without a permanent source of income. The Ministry of the coal industry of the region notes that the workers received compensation, there are no wage arrears.

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The details of the closure of the mine were reported on social networks by an employee of the Ministry of the Coal Industry of Kuzbass, answering a question from a resident of the region about the reasons for the closure of the mine, writes the online publication NGS42.RU.

According to an employee of the department, due to large debts, the company lost its solvency and, by decision of the arbitration court, was declared bankrupt. From open sources it is known that the company had 476 employees.

According to RBC, the company has started having problems since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The mine suffered the most tangible losses in 2020, when the global economy was faced with the massive introduction of quarantine restrictions and the closure of borders, which resulted in a decrease in energy demand.

Financial indicators of the Butovskaya mine

The Butovskaya mine is owned by the Zubitsky family, which recently included, along with the Rotenberg and Gutseriev families, one of the ten richest families in Russia according to Forbes. Yevgeny Zubitsky himself is under the sanctions of the European Union and Great Britain, which means freezing assets and a ban on entry.

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At the moment, the unemployed miners in the conditions of the undeveloped economy of the Kemerovo region have few opportunities to earn money: they can get a job as a security guard, a taxi driver, or go on a shift. Or try to get a job in another, not yet closed, mine.

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The authorities are looking for a solution to the problem of import substitution of nails
04/16/2022
"Domestic-oriented" business requires additional money for this

The head of the Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko , reacted very emotionally to the information that came to her about the import of nails and urged domestic businessmen to force their production, Lenta reports . Business Ombudsman Boris Titov sees no benefit for his wards from such an investment today. Our entrepreneurs, as he says, are hindered by the industrial policy of the state. In the meantime, the authorities have not decided what to do with the nails, the government has developed a national project in the field of electronics, which provides for the use of 3.19 trillion rubles until 2030 .

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“We don’t even produce nails in a country that produces so much metal,” Valentina Ivanovna was suddenly indignant.

Boris Yuryevich, who defends the interests of business, explained to a high-ranking official in a correspondence debate: in order for domestic-oriented "industrialists" to engage in such production, it is necessary to revise the tax policy, reduce the administrative burden, reduce the tariffs of infrastructure monopolies and take into account many other nuances.

Director of the plant "Novaya Rus" Viktor Polkanov promised to cope with the problem "only" in a year with appropriate financial support from the budget. As you can see, the “invisible hand of the market” is capable of something only when it is properly “gilded”.

It is likely that the authorities will satisfy the desire of business. One of the tested options is the creation of another national project. The effectiveness of such a tool to achieve the stated goals, however, has not been noticed even by representatives of the authorities themselves. But when such "little things" stopped those who own the state. After all, their main task is to preserve and increase the income of the owners of factories, newspapers, steamers.

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The situation is the same in the US for nails and many other things. This is what happens in capitalism where pursuit of the lowest cost and not human need is the primary, virtually only, consideration.

For the first time since 2015, annual inflation exceeded 16%
04/13/2022
On the way to new records

According to the Bank of Russia, annual inflation reached 16.69%, which was the highest level since March 2015. According to the Central Bank, food prices rose by 17.99%, of which fruit and vegetable products - by 34.83%, non-food products rose in price by 20.34% in March.

A significant rise in prices has led to a clear decline in the well-being of the vast majority of the country's population - workers. Such significant inflation during the month actually destroyed the results of the indexation of pensions in January of this year. With regard to wages, it is even worse, since their indexation is carried out in accordance with employment contracts, often the determination of the amount of indexation is at the mercy of the employer.

Some citizens are trying to improve their situation by creating some stocks of necessary items, food for the future. So the billionaire Igor Rybakov , one of the owners of the TechnoNIKOL corporation, engaged in the production of building materials, advises stocking up building materials for the future so that it is possible to build in the summer. Some are looking for part-time jobs. However, such methods of improving or at least maintaining welfare at the same level are doomed to failure. Stocks will run out sooner or later, and part-time work exhausts the human body, taking away his strength and time, which ultimately can lead to loss of health.

Therefore, the only reasonable way for workers to improve their situation is to protect their interests. Due to the collective nature of the struggle, it takes much less time and effort, and the results are much greater. If a part-time job is able to provide additional funds only during the period when the employee is busy with it, then the salary increase will have an effect all the time of work. Improving working conditions at the enterprise will also have an effect for a long time, and not only during a protest or strike, especially since it is often enough for employees to file a collective complaint with the authorities for such an improvement.

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The prohibition to compare the USSR and Nazi Germany: necessity or hypocrisy?
04/17/2022
The President of the Russian Federation signed a new law

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning public identification of the USSR and Nazi Germany and denying "the decisive role of the Soviet people in the defeat of Nazi Germany . " Violators face a fine or administrative arrest... Let's figure out why this law is needed and how it will help stop the flow of lies on Russian television screens.

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The law signed by the President is published on the official portal of legal information. With its help, a new article 13.48 “Violation of the federal law prohibition of public identification of the goals, decisions and actions of the leadership of the USSR with the goals, decisions and actions of the leadership of Nazi Germany ... as well as the denial of the decisive role of the Soviet people in the defeat of Nazi Germany and humanitarian mission of the USSR in the liberation of Europe" . Punishment - a fine from 1000 to 2000 rubles, or arrest for 15 days. Repeated violations result in higher fines.

The criminalization of various opinions and statements is a general trend in the modern world; such bans are being introduced even in countries that were previously considered strongholds of free speech. For example, the prohibition of "denial of the Holocaust" is in the legislation of France , Canada , Switzerland , Germany and many other "civilized" countries. In Lithuania and Latvia it is forbidden by law to justify the so-called "Soviet occupation". All these countries demonstrate a common approach, which is characterized by the following features:

Instead of considering the truth of this or that statement, its acceptability for state power is put at the forefront. In other words, the state legislates which opinion is considered “correct” and which is not.
The state renounces in advance attempts to convince society or at least look for the roots of what it believes to be false views. Instead, the "correct" opinion is imposed through state coercion.
Thus, the authorities of each country actually recognize that the existence of irreconcilable social contradictions is a normal course of things, and they fight these contradictions only by methods of prohibitions and repressions.

The signing of the decree mentioned above leaves no doubt about its true purpose, if we recall the context of the events. The authorities of Ukraine are well known for their sympathy for the Nazis, in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) and throughout Ukrainian society, a loyal attitude towards Nazi Germany and hatred towards the Soviet Union are cultivated, for which they use fantastic accusations (for example, “Holodomor”). On the other hand, the President of the Russian Federation declared “denazification” the goal of the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine. The adoption of the law on the prohibition of equating the USSR and Nazi Germany is pointedly aimed at supporting the goals of “denazification” in Russia itself. Thus, the Russian authorities are flirting - for the umpteenth time - with the patriotic feelings of the population and national history.


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Opening of the memorial plaque to Mannerheim

But what about those who continue to equate the USSR and Nazi Germany in the highest echelons of power? What about those who promote the even more vile idea of ​​whitewashing Nazi collaborators? Let us recall only a few facts.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry , Maria Zakharova , made it clear in 2016 that Stalin is worse than Hitler.
Minister Vladimir Medinsky (now the chief negotiator from the Russian Federation with Ukraine) promoted the Nazi accomplice Baron Mannerheim.
The well-known Russian TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev spoke out on federal air against the monuments to Lenin and for the monuments to the Nazi accomplice Ataman Krasnov.

The Russian film industry has been releasing films for years and decades in which the USSR and Germany are not only equated, but it is demonstrated that the Nazis are better and more humane than the "Soviet" ones; as examples, one can recall the work of Nikita Mikhalkov .

Is it all going to stop now? Will they really stop telling us about civilized Nazis and communist scumbags ? Of course not. And it's not even about rewriting history , which is in full swing in our country. Suffice it to recall that President Putin himself indirectly equated the USSR and Nazi Germany when, along with “denazification,” he promised to show Ukraine “real decommunization . ” This alone is enough to draw the right conclusions about the populist actions of the authorities.

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