Map of Utilities outages in Russia for the week 3rd to the 9th of November. The regions bordering Ukraine have Outages primarily due to drone strikes.

Updated map of the regions of Russia where there are shortages of gasoline or diesel and how early was it first reported. As always it's worse in the occupied territories. Added just one region since the last update, Vologda.

Russian official inflation as reported by Rosstat for the period 28th of October to the 5th of November stood at 0,11%. For November 2025 there's a inflation of 0,06% and inflation for the year so far 5,23%. Fuel prices are largely ignored. www.interfax.ru/business/105...

Russian Business news 7-9/November/2025: In Q3 2025 Russian 90 days ovedue credit card debt dropped to 2024 levels to 1,6% down from 2,76 % in Q1 2025. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8181602

In another story on how "there's no gasoline shortage in Russia" in Ulyanovsk Lukoil gas stations that were opened in February are being sold on Avito for 150 million rubles. It casually mentions that Lukoil gas stations are permanently out of gasoline... 73online.ru/r/v_novospas...

Russian Business news 6/November/2025: Russian pork producers have lowered wholesale prices by 1-3% over last week due a drop in retail prices. However in July pork prices rose by 12-30% and prices are still 15-20% higher than in 2024. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8181386

Russian Business news 5/November/2025: Transportation of Russian timber has become more difficult due to the introduction halving of the vise free stay in Russia for foreign drivers to 90 days per year limiting them to only 3 trips a year. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8179734

In Bulgaria the subcommittee vote on nationalizing Lukoil took 30 seconds today and it was followed by 2 readings and votes in record time this morning. There are issues with the authority of the new director but the nationalization isn't one of those. www.dnevnik.bg/politika/202...

In case someone tries to deny there's a gasoline shortage in Russia, today the governor of Zabalkayski krai sent a letter to Russia's Prime minister Mishustin begging for more gasoline. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8181931

Russia's main tank producing company Uralvagonzavod is planning on laying off 10% of its work force in 2026. This is likely linked more to the railway section of the company but still isn't a good look mid war if railway car demand is dropping. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8181859

Russian services PMI jumped up in October to 51,7 points signaling expansion after the 47 points in September. www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/...

Russian Business news 1-4/November/2025: Chinese Refineries have begun to switch away from Russian oil due to the US sanctions imposed in October. This caused the value of the ESPO Russian oil from the eastern ports to drop significantly. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8179484

Here's an article that goes in depth into the failure of Russian air defense to stop drone attacks on refineries. It turns out they are more focused on reporting how many bullets they spent than how much of the refinery was protected. dailsmi.ru/15041-etogo-...

Russia banned the export of sulfur to ensure there's enough for fertilizers for domestic food production. Sulfur in Russia was mostly produced by refineries and gas processing plants and is another proxy for the extent of the damage Ukraine caused: www.interfax.ru/russia/1056115

Map of Utilities outages in Russia for the week 27th of October to the 2nd of November. This year starts really strong with 250 outages reported in the last week of October vs 225 last year. More importantly this is the first year of outages due to drone attacks.

Updated map of the regions of Russia where there are shortages of gasoline or diesel and how early was it first reported. As always it's worse in the occupied territories. Added just one region since the last update, Yaroslavl.

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Because people wonder if the shortages of fuel persist in Russia here's an example from Ulyanovsk region from the city itself with Lukoil gas stations and independent ones not having gasoline when the local news team inspected them. Issues persist. 73online.ru/r/benzin_v_u...

Because I see talk about how without Lukoil Bulgaria's Neftohim Burgas refinery will collapse. Bulgaria has had a ban on imports of Russian oil since 2024. The refinery now uses Kazakh, Iraqi and Saudi oil predominantly as of August 2025.

Russian Business news 31/October/2025: Russian banks without warning customers have started increasing the duration of loans thus forcing people who have taken out loans to pay even more in interest. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8162763

Russian Manufacturing PMI for October dropped from 48,2 to 48 continuing contraction and on top of that output expectations for the year ahead are the lowest since May 2022. www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/...

Russian Business news 30/October/2025: For the period September-October 2025 sales in Russia of basic foods in physical terms decreased by 5%. The biggest drops were milk with 8%, rice with 10% and buckwheat an pork by 9%. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8162527

Russian Business news 29/October/2025: The sales of semi trailers in Russia for the period Q1-Q3 dropped by 60,2% to 14 460 units and in September 2025 by 62,7% compared to September 2024 and by 6,1% compared to August 2025. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8160559

Russian export of petroleum products fell to the lowest level since 2022. For the period October 1st to 26th 2025 the export was 1,89 million barrels per day vs on average 2,3 million in 2022 and 2 million in 2024. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8162436

In Mongolia the Prime Minister sacked Deputy Prime Minister Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan because he mentioned the possibility of gasoline shortages in the country and supposedly caused panic among Mongolians. There were already queues at gas stations... gazeta-n1.ru/news/society...

The Russian MinFin managed to sell 24,722 billion rubles (24 billion 722 million, European decimal comma)of debt from the fix coupon issue OFZ PD-26247 at a yield of 15,08%. rusbonds.ru/news/2025102...

Russian official inflation as reported by Rosstat for the period 21th to the 27th of October stood at 0,16%. For October 2025 there's a inflation of 0,79% and inflation for the year so far 5,11%. As I have said before fuel prices are largely ignored. www.interfax.ru/business/105...

Another three Youtube shorts I did with @tochnyi.info on the Russian gasoline shortage for those who missed the bigger discussion in last Sunday's stream. The first one focuses on the gasoline shortage's impact on the Central Asian republics. www.youtube.com/shorts/k7cP4...

Aeroflot has made a separate company AeroTransTehniks which now after they got their FAP-145 certification from the Russian government will start repairing CFM56-5B and CFM56-7B airplane engines. This is without the manufacturer's approval. kommersant.ru/doc/8161162

I am going to be a bit critical of the Indian side here in signing this memorandum with the United Aircraft Corporation. The plane has a number of problems. For example the new engine and the new parts are of different dimensions from the SSJ-100. bsky.app/profile/delf...

Russian Business news 28/October/2025: Retail sales of beer in Russia for the period Q1-Q3 2025 decreased by 16,9% and for Q3 the drop was 17,9%. The reason is due to the cold summer and the 17,5% increase in the price of beer over the year. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8159749

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Russian authorities in Ikrutsk region have disclosed that the region is suffering fuel shortages because the main refinery in the area Rosneft's Angarsk shut down in October for repairs. It was already producing a lot less than full capacity before that. ircity.ru/text/economi...

On September 14 2024, a 47-year-old bus driver sustained injuries in a Russian attack during the 'Human Safari' in Kherson. The attack was intended to inflict significantly greater harm than the single casualty depicted on our map. 1/3

Russian Business news 27/October/2025: Russian major oil company Lukoil plans to sell its foreign assets due to the sanctions imposed on it. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8159683

If you want a more detailed explanation on what is happening in the Central Asian republics now that Russia is reducing or even cutting their fuel supplies you can listen to yesterday's @tochnyi.info stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvC...

In Yekaterinburg Bashneft closed 3 of its gas stations due to a shortage of fuel without saying when they will reopen. Reminder that Bashneft operates its own refineries but they have been hit by Ukrainian drones. eanews.ru/ekaterinburg...

Russian plastics producers are warning that with the rerouting of byproducts of oil refining like benzene towards raising the octane level of gasoline they are now having a shortage of raw materials and will have to reduce production. silan.su/novosti/pere...

Only 182 out of 280 gas stations in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar are operating normally. 11 of the them serve only essential services and 39 had closed down due to a lack of fuel. Russia is denying that it has stopped deliveries but it seems obvious. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8158822

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On the morning of August 25th 2024, a 24-year-old man and a 53-year-old petrol station worker were seriously wounded when a Russian drone dropped explosive ordnance onto a petrol station in the Tavriyskyi district of Kherson. 1/3

In Yekaterinburg locals are complaining to media that they are driving in circles looking for Ai-95 gasoline. And there's none even at Gazprom, Lukoil and Rosneft gas stations because fuel depots are empty. www.e1.ru/text/auto/20...

The Russian oil tax for October is slightly above September but below August. Not as bad as June or May but still bad overall.

Covering the Industrial Russian output for both August and September in one go as I didn't have time to properly cover august last month. The trend is a continued decrease in the output growth with August having 0,5% growth and September just 0,3% growth.

This gets even more interesting, the block on VK in Belarus was requested by the KGB. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8157891

It seems Belarus has ended the blocking of VK's website: belta.by/society/view...

Russian Business news 24/October/2025: The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service issued a warning to Gazprom Neft — Regional Sales in Novosibirsk for cutting sales to independent gas stations. For Ai-95 sales were cut by 50% and for Ai-92 by 75%. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8142372

Belarus just decided to block VK which is a Russian state owned social network. I'm really surprised by this. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8157867

Russian Business news 23/October/2025: The net profit of Russian steelmaker MMK for Q1-Q3 dropped by 84,3% to 10,669 billion rubles. Revenue dropped by 23% to 464,1 bilion rubles. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8141582

The Ministry of Economic Development says that the decrease of the interest rate by 0,5% is just a token reduction saying the decrease could have been larger. We are seeing the Ministry openly attacking the Central Bank in the press. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8157684