Oil and Oil Product Loading
January-September: 147.2 million tons (-5.4% y/y)
July: 16.7 million tons (-2.3% y/y)
August: 16.3 million tons (-6.3% y/y)
September: 15.1 million tons (-9.6% y/y)
The rate of decline has tripled since July
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
The Kremlin is worried. Some prominent Russians are “eager to find Putin's successor”
Writer Alexander Prokhanov, who is becoming disgraced, burst into a speech about “Putin's successor who will come from silence.” There he tells in detail who can replace the current president. Such statements surprised and worried many in the Kremlin.
“I consider the talk about the successor of Vladimir Vladimirovich very strange. I don't understand why they should be conducted. Our president is alive, healthy and, despite all enemies, is ready to fight for the future of Russia for a long time. We need to figure out why Prokhanov started talking about this topic, why he is impatient to find a successor. Maybe he has lost his mind - he writes strange books, and makes incomprehensible statements. Or maybe there was malicious intent. We will find out,” an influential source in the Presidential Administration told us.
Another suggested that the writer is “promoting” Sergei Kiriyenko as Putin's successor (we wrote that Sergei Vladilenovich does not mind becoming a successor). “Look at how Prokhanov describes who can come to power after Vladimir Vladimirovich: “Putin's successor will come from silence. The most inconspicuous, the most colorless, the most despised in the Bolshevik milieu was Stalin. He was the most worthless, he was lost in the shadows of the magnificent Trotsky, the well-equipped Bukharin, the whole Leninist cohort, and Lenin himself. He was on the sidelines, doing rough work, maybe bringing tea, I don't know... And Mother History chose him, and threw off everything else as unnecessary... Now we need to see who among our pheasants and peacocks is the quiet gray bird, whose name is a sparrow. And the sparrow is the bird of the Russian paradise!” Such a gray, incomprehensible politician-sparrow - this is about Kiriyenko! He even looks like a sparrow in some way,” our interlocutor believes.
In this regard, he called on Kiriyenko to “moderate his ambitions.” “Sparrows generally do not live very long. We should not forget about this,” said a source close to the president.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6257
More and more about this in Russian social media.
July: 16.7 million tons (-2.3% y/y)
August: 16.3 million tons (-6.3% y/y)
September: 15.1 million tons (-9.6% y/y)
The rate of decline has tripled since July
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