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
🔥 A building in the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone, home to companies manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles, burned in Moscow.
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What are acceptable sources, Tass?
Why hasn’t Jim banned BS, as you have already pointed out he has already banned many other sites?
July?
Source?
Shocking😎, and source?
So NATO bad, CCP good?
Despite Putin being responsible for more death and destruction than any Russian leader since Stalin, Russian trolls and anti-western agitators will warn "We can't risk replacing him because any replacement will be worse!" Of course, that is a lie. 4 years ago, maybe a believable lie. Any replacement now will likely scapegoat Russia's current problems on Putin and his adventure, and their primary concerns will be internal, securing their own power and wealth, not external expansion.
True.
He recalled that the authorities promised a “soft landing” of the economy, which grew at a rate of more than 4% annually in 2023-24, and projected an increase in GDP of 2% per year or more. But in reality, the growth rate fell to 0.4% year-on-year in July, and the government lowered its official forecast for 2025 to 1% growth.
“It seems to me that cooling or controlled soft landing, it is not very soft and not very manageable,” Shokhin said.
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/30/glava-profsoyuza-oligarhov-konstatiroval-nachalo-neupravlyaemogo-szhatiya-rossiiskoi-ekonomiki-ekonomiki-a175826
Putler doesn't understand economics, but he will soon understand that his dethronement was due to bad economics.
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