Russian troubled real estate developer was in technical default on 2 bond issues. According to them due to a technical error they couldn't do the payments on May 4th so they made them on May 5th at around 1 AM .

The thread will be up tomorrow morning but I think today's the day I should post what my wall looks like of late, my hands always shake hence this is the quality:

Early warning that the Russian oil extraction taxes will be incredibly high in May due to the very high average Ural oil for April. It's calculated at 94,87 USD per barrel after 77 USD in March. Oil and gas revenue will also spike significantly.

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RBK Investment published a video on ... the return of the planned economy to Russia in a digital form.

The price of Russian steel billets in Black Sea ports reached $475–480 per ton by April 24 which is a new high since the start of 2025. Prices are rising on reduced exports from the Middle East and China but Turkish buyers have reduced their purchases.

Due to the poor grain harvest in the Russian south and the high grain yields in the Central, Volga and Siberian regions Russian grain exports by rail have risen to record levels whilst exports by sea were hit by high freight rates due to the conflict in the Middle East.

Now you can report to the FSB Russian soldiers bribing Ukrainians to buy the starlink terminals. In it's effort to prevent Russians from accessing the global internet the Russian government has banned the import of foreign satellite terminals into Russia.

As European thermal coal prices dropped to levels before the conflict in the Middle East Turkish ones are still a bit behind dropping only 3% with reduced shipments from Colombia and South Africa offering Russian coal companies to continue selling without discounts for a while.

Russian Business news 29/April/2026: The US Department of Commerce has reduced the duty on the import of phosphate fertilizers for the Russian company Apatit which is part of the Putin shadow owned PhosAgro by 5,5% to 12,7%. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8633216

The business environment index from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs for April amounted to 46,2 points which is 2,4 points higher than in March but it still shows a decrease of business activity as the value is belo 50 points.

Russian state airline Aeroflot reported a 7,9 billion ruble adjusted loss for Q1 2026 vs 1,9 billion ruble profit for Q1 2025. Revenue rose by 5,7% to 172,3 billion rubles. Net loss for Q1 2026 was 12,6 billion rubles vs a net profit of 56,6 billion rubles in Q1 2025.

The net loss of Russian coal companies for January-February rose from 19,9 billion rubles in 2025 to 51,6 billion rubles in 2026. Coal companies that reported a profit had a total profit of 13,6 billion rubles while those reporting a loss lost 65,2 billion rubles.

Russian Business news 29/April/2026: Sberbank lowered the projection for GDP growth in Russia for 2026 from 1-1,5% to 0,5-1%. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8632725

Russian official inflation as reported by Rosstat for the period from the 21st to the 27th of April stood at 0,05%. For April the inflation is 0,23% and 3,21% for 2026. The prices for vacations in South East Asia by 2,8%. www.interfax.ru/business/108...

The Russian MinFin at the first auction for the day managed to sell 87,887 billion rubles (87 billion 887 million, European decimal comma)of debt from the fixed coupon issue OFZ PD-26218 at a yield of 14,2%. rusbonds.ru/news/2026042...

According to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development for March 2026 the Russian economy grew by 1,8% and for Q1 decreased by 0,3%. But they changed their statistics for January and February from -2,1 to -1,8 and from -1,5 to -1,1 we've yet to see why.

Russian Business news 28/April/2026: The Russian Ministry of Digital Development is working on ways to introduce additional fees for users who use VPN services in Russia as a way to prohibit their use. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8625150

Russian Business news 27/April/2026: According to Russia's finance Minister Siluanov the situation with regional deficits is difficult with them ballooning to 1,5 trillion rubles in 2025 when they used to be 200-300 billion. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8623726

Russian petroleum products exports are being constrained by the 20th EU sanctions package pressuring Greek shipowners to not offer their tankers and also by Ukrainian attacks limiting the exports of such products from the Black Sea Ports.

Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry is warning that the situation for small businesses is so dire 65% of them are not making a profit and there will be mass closures this year. Something they say even a 5% Central Bank interest rate will not fix as demand is plummeting.

Russian tanker port data. At Ust-Luga the LNG terminal is offline. Gas condensate facility is operational. The adjusted in oil shipments was minimal. Oil is down this week and with adjustments it might be down to 1 million barrels a day and oil products are down to 1 tanker.

The St Petersburg commodities exchange reduced the maximum decrease possible for fuel sales from 5% to 3%. This is out of fear that the agreement that will force refineries to sell more domestically will cause volatility but current refining volumes are too low for that.

Workers at 3 mines in Luhansk are complaining that the Russian company Donskiye Ugli their mines were transferred to stopped paying wages in 2026 and closed down the mines and has now entered into bankruptcy procedures leaving 1 200 workers without pay.

The Russian cosmetics chain L'Etoile plans to close 150 stores in 2026 which is over 15% of their total number of stores. This comes on top of them closing 93 stores in 2025 and the company reported its first loss since 2012 in that year with revenue dropping 6%.

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There's going to be a 2 day frost in Krasnodarsky Kray on April 28th and 29th. This is horrible for the berry and fruit growers in the region and also in the neighboring region. Under such conditions the fruit and berry harvest has been damaged a number of years in a row.

Russian Business news 24/April/2026: Russian troubled real estate developer Samolet for 2025 reported a net loss of 2,3 billion rubles vs a profit of 8,2 billion rubles in 2024. Revenue increased by 8% to 366,8 billion rubles. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8608660

Russian Business news 23/April/2026: The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant for Q1 2026 reported a 1,37 billion rubles loss vs a net profit of 3,1 billion rubles in Q1 2025. Revenue dropped by 18,6% to 129,02 billion rubles. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8608009

We've gotten to the point where the Putin regime is fighting Russian classical literature:

The Russian Central Bank lowered the interest rate by another 0,5% to 14,5%.

So polls like this are now a thing:

Russian coking coal exports in Q1 2026 grew by 9% despite issues with poor weather disrupting shipping but the average price per ton dropped by 3% to 112,8 USD per ton. They're able to compete with Mongolian and Australian coal but at the cost of a discount.

Russian clothing sales are expected to grow in ruble values by a few percent this year buy shrink by 4-5% in the number of item sold as despite household incomes growing nominally 50% of Russians have difficulty affording new clothing.

Russian domestic agricultural equipment sales decreased in Q1 2026 by 15,8% after a 21% decrease in 2025 and a 17,6% decrease in 2024 this is the third bad year in row. Production dropped even further by 36,8% with limited expectations of recovery in 2026.

The Russian oil taxes for April 2026 are out and they are almost 32% higher than in April 2025. This is due to the average price for oil for the calculation of taxes is 77 USD per barrel and the higher average USD price in March at 80,41 rubles per USD.

Russian official inflation as reported by Rosstat for the period from the 14th to the 20th of April stood at 0,01%. For April the inflation is 0,18% and 3,16% for 2026. Vegetable prices dropped as did prices for trips to South East Asia by 5,1%. www.interfax.ru/business/108...

The Russian MinFin at the first auction for the day managed to sell 115,754 billion rubles (115 billion 754 million, European decimal comma)of debt from the fixed coupon issue OFZ PD-26245 at a yield of 14,55%. rusbonds.ru/news/2026042...

Russian Business news 22/April/2026: The transit of Kazakh oil to Germany via the Druzhba oil pipeline will be stopped from May 1 2026 according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8607183

Russian Business news 21/April/2026: The net profit of Russian leasing companies 2025 decreased by 50% to 34,1 billion rubles. 30 companies showed 40% or higher decrease in profit and the number of companies reporting a loss rose from 3 to 10. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8605721

Russian oil exports last week rose by 22% week over week due to increased shipment by 83,6% from the Baltic with Ust-Luga and Primorsk recovering. Novorossiysk is not expected to ship any Russian oil in April and the month will see the lowest shipments since 2023.

For those who are not aware if Severstal isn't making a profit from steel in Russia no one is. Severstal has the lowest production costs out of all steelmakers on the Russian market. Here's a bit from an interview in 2025: bsky.app/profile/delf...

The net profit of Russian steel maker Severstal for Q1 2026 dropped by 99,73% to 57 million rubles from 21,072 billion rubles in q1 2025. Revenue dropped 19% to 145,31 billion rubles and the EBITDA by 54% 17,94 billion rubles.

Russian Business news 20/April/2026: The number of new companies in Russia that provide funeral services in Q1 2026 grew by 20,8-37,5% to 500-524. The total companies in the sphere rose by 5,7% to 11 300. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8604740

Russian tanker port data. At Ust-Luga the LNG terminal is still offline, the gas condensate loading has resumed, oil products loading recovered, the LPG loading has resumed. The adjusted crude oil data for last week shows shipments below the average 0,7 million barrels a day.

Russian export of oil to China in Q1 2026 increased by 31% to reach 31,9 million tons. However in dollar value the increase was only 8,8% to 14,4 billion USD. LNG exports to China in volume rose 6,7% to 1,38 million tons but in value dropped 17,3% to 651,6 million USD.

Russian coal prices have received a boost from the conflict in the Middle east with price ranges between 69,6 and 82,3 USD when a year prior analysts didn't expect them to rise over 73 USD per ton in 2026. But logistical and insurance costs continue to rise especially in the south.

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Here's the result of the Russian debt auctions for Q1 2026 in graphs:

Russian Business news 17/April/2026: The Russian Minister of Economic Development Reshetnikov said that while previous years business adapted to the shortage of staff and rising wages through finding internal reserves which are now largely exhausted. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8603848