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Nabiullina tried to urgently contact Putin after his conversation with Macron. And she started talking about a new increase in the key rate.
According to our sources in the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina “wanted to find out whether the end of the SVO became closer after the talks between Vladimir Vladimirovich and the President of France” (the head of the Central Bank continues to insist that the hostilities must be ended as soon as possible).
Nabiullina failed to contact Putin (sources in the Kremlin claim that “Vladimir Vladimirovich is tired of listening to horror stories about the economic crisis”). And this fact seriously spoiled her mood.
According to our information, the head of the Central Bank said that the president's refusal to communicate “very upset her and threatens problems for all of Russia.” She also made a prediction in her heart: if the situation does not change, the key rate will be raised again by the end of the year, and “will reach new serious figures.” What exactly, interlocutors close to Nabiullina refused to say. At the same time, the Kremlin does not believe in an increase in the key rate, they are expecting it to be reduced further .
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Powerful measures for the economy:
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Patriarch Kirill ordered to take measures in case of economic crisis in Russia. There will be several powerful prayers
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church heard the warnings of economists that our country is facing a serious crisis this year. And he ordered to “take measures in the near future to prevent it.” “We have successful experience of praying for the strengthening of the ruble exchange rate, we also prayed against rising prices. The Patriarch ordered to create several more powerful prayers – for the protection of Russia from the crisis, for reducing the effectiveness of sanctions, against, God forbid, food riots, against the introduction of food stamps and other negative phenomena that could threaten our country,” a source in the Church told us.
“Judging by what I have heard, the crisis could be really serious. There are cases when only prayers will help. And we are preparing for this,” he explained. Some of the anti-crisis prayers have already begun to be read at individual services where the laity are not present – “so as not to drive the people into turmoil.” Some are still in the process of being created. Another source in the Russian Orthodox Church expressed confidence that prayers will protect us from the “terrible and destructive crisis that Russia is promised.” He gave several examples of the effect of prayers. Among them is the liberation of the LPR, which was announced the day before, and the successful missile and drone strikes on Ukraine.
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Perhaps, but sometimes the answer is no🤔
Russian natural gas exports this year continue to decline overall, despite Hungary buying a bit more through the TurkStream pipeline. They have not been able to make up for reductions due to the halt of exports through Ukrainian pipelines, or the new sanctions ban on transshipping LNG through Europe.
“Russia’s natural gas exports to Europe via pipeline and LNG cargoes declined in the first half of 2025 from a year earlier as flows via Ukraine stopped and some buyers shunned Russian LNG.
Total gas exports from Russia to Europe nearly halved to 8.33 billion cubic meters in the period January to June 2025, down from 15.5 billion cubic meters for the same period of 2024...
...year-to-date, Russian gas flows to Europe via the TurkStream route increased by 6.8% from a year earlier, per Reuters estimates...
...Russia’s total LNG exports also fell in the first half of the year, by 4.4% to 15.2 million metric tons, per data from LSEG quoted by Reuters. LNG exports to Europe slumped by 13% year on year, as an EU ban on Russian LNG transshipments came into effect in March. The EU banned transshipment of Russian LNG for re-export to third countries from EU ports as part of a sanctions package earlier this year.”