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Disclaimer, some of the regions are gray not because they lack issues but because there are insufficient sources. Link to the last week's final map:
bsky.app/profile/delf...
I want to point out that there are far more outages than on the map. For North Ossetia Alania I have a handful of outages total this year but local media points to power cuts leading to 52 heating outages due to pipes breaking so far this year:
alaniatv.ru/vo-vladikavk...
Tune in tonight to @tochnyi.info 's live stream at 21:00 Kyiv time to hear me do a summary of this week's Russian business news.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WAL...
This week we had a bit more outages than last week and we're noticeably above 2024.
07.12.2025 17:48 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Map of Utilities outages in Russia for the week 1st to the 7th of December.
07.12.2025 17:48 — 👍 77 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 4The Russian Central Bank lowered the USD exchange rate by 0,88 rubles from 76,97 rubles to 76,09 rubles per USD and the euro exchange rate by 1,2 rubles from 89,90 rubles to 88,7 rubles per euro.
www.banki.ru/news/lenta/?...
Russian fertilizer company PhosAgro increased its exports to India over the period Jan-Nov 2025 by 130% to reach 2,57 million tons. The company said that the increase in Q3 2025 was 12 times.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8268189
The Russian region of Bashkortostan has proposed selling 6,36% of the stocks of local oil company Bashneft. The region owns 25% plus one share of the stock of the company. The biggest shareholder is Rosneft 57,7% and it jailed a minister to get it.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8268117
India has invited Russia to establish a joint partnership for the production of electric vehicles.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8268046
Putin announced that the Russian channel RT will start being broadcast in India.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8267882
Putin ordered for the trade turnover between Russia and India to grow to 100 billion USD per year up from the 65 billion USD in 2024. That's not how such things work.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8267919
The net profit for Russian high grade metallurgical coal when exported via the Kuzbass by rail and then by sea though the Russian Far East rose to 6 000 rubles per ton. This is due to a combination of higher demand and lower railway transportation costs.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8251897
The Russian Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting or TSMAKP warned that there medium grade risk of a banking crisis occurring in Russia before October 2026.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8267864
According to Rosatom the third unit of the nuclear power plant Kudankulam in India will be launched in 2026. The first and second units were launched in 2013 and 2016 respectively and are operating at full capacity.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8255177
The largest internet provider in Crimea has been nationalized by Russia after the owners were accused by the Russian imposed authorities of providing assistance to the Ukrainian intel services.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8252304
The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Indian corporation Yadu will create a joint investment platform that will accompany export and investment projects.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8252247
The Russian Central Bank will lift the restriction on transferring money abroad for Russians and foreigners from "friendly" countries from December 8th 2025.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8252253
The price to rent houses for the New Year's celebrations in Moscow region rose by 23% to 40 900 rubles per day. At the same time the houses on offer grew by 40% whilst demand by 20%. In the regions prices are up 8% and demand 5%.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8252215
For the period Q1-Q3 the Russian ready to eat food market grew by 32% in rubles and by 17% in physical terms. The challenge to growth will be the limited capacity to produce such food in the regions away from big retail companies' production facilities.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8251889
The head of VTB Kostin has sent a letter to Russian Presidential Aide Ushakov with a proposal for Indian buyers to pay for oil through VTB's Indian branch and then to do currency conversions between VTB India and VTB Shanghai to reduce imbalances.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8251960
The export price of Russian sunflower oil is expected to fall in H1 2026 by 5-10 after growing by 40% in 2024 and by 9,5% in 2025. This is due to the increased supply and limited demand globally.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8251969
The Russian MinFin is planning on raising the minimum sale the price of 0,5 liter of vodka by 17,1% to 409 rubles, of brandy by 28% to 605 rubles per 0,5 liter and of cognac and whiskey 16% to 755 rubles.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8268299
Russian Business news 5/December/2025:
The G7 countries and the EU may introduce a ban on the sea transportation of Russian commodities instead of a price ceiling on Russian oil as part of a new set of sanctions to be introduced in early 2026.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8268259
The US NSS reads like it was written by someone terminally online who wanted to be able to brag he owned Europe but might lead to the US losing its basing rights in Europe and the DoD no longer having a global presence.
05.12.2025 14:18 — 👍 40 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0We track things like plans, insurance policies, invoices for procedures, care quality data from hospitals and doctors and that sort of thing.
05.12.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My day job is working on software used by US healthcare insurance companies to track their members and their transition of care from hospitals.
05.12.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Again these people are saying things Putin's own appointees don't say:
05.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
In case someone says that gasoline shortages didn't really hit Russia proper, in Novosibirsk gasoline shortages were among the top reasons for anxiety of locals along with blocking of internet and messengers:
nsk.rbc.ru/nsk/05/12/20...
Only when they explicitly complain about refineries not doing deliveries.
05.12.2025 07:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is unlikely to change with Russian companies' investment plans being the worst since 2008-2009.
05.12.2025 07:13 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
