Posted on 11/11/2026 9:56:05 PM PST by Cronos
WHY RUSSIA'S YAKOVLEV FACED A BANKRUPTCY PETITION DESPITE STATE BACKING
Russian aircraft manufacturer Yakovlev , responsible for the MC-21 and SJ-100 passenger jet programs, is facing a bankruptcy petition filed by a steel supplier over unpaid debts. The case has attracted attention because the company is controlled by the Russian state and plays a central role in the country's efforts to replace Western-built commercial aircraft.
The Moscow Arbitration Court accepted the petition from Izhstal, a steel producer belonging to the private Russian industrial group Mechel, on October 30. A hearing has been scheduled for January 18, 2027, when the court will examine whether the creditor's claim is justified.
The amount of debt behind the petition has not been disclosed. Yakovlev acknowledged the proceedings in a regulatory filing published on November 3, stating that it had taken the necessary measures to settle the outstanding amount in full.
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In the longer term, Russia will fare better than all the EU nations, by a lot.
Reasonisfaith, you aren’t showing reason for faith when you write “In the longer term, Russia will fare better than all the EU nations, by a lot”
Right now the Russian economy is smaller than Italy’s.
Right now Russia’s current numbers represent “war-driven growth” that squanders long-term capital, drains labor pools through casualties and emigration, and depletes state financial reserves (such as the National Wealth Fund) rather than building sustainable civilian prosperity
Right now Russia has a 13% Muslim population (in contrast to the eu with 6.5%)
Right now Russia’s braindraih continues apace.
Oh and resources? Just having resources don’t make you rich, or the Democratic republic of Congi would be richer than Luxembourg
So on what reason or faith do you think the Russian federation will fare better in the short, middle or long term?
Hundreds of thousands of educated, tech-literate, and skilled workers fled Russia following the 2022 invasion and subsequent mobilizations. Combined with high war casualties and a shrinking baseline workforce, Russia faces acute structural labor deficits across high-tech, engineering, and medical fields.
I work with or interact with some of those who fled Putin.
At the same time the Central Bank of Russia was forced to push its key interest rate to 21% (the highest in over two decades), making business loans, mortgages, and private investment virtually impossible for normal companies. Meanwhile, real inflation on basic groceries like butter, potatoes, and meat has surged well into double digits.
An economy where the central bank has to set interest rates above 20% just to keep prices from exploding isn’t thriving—it’s in intensive care.
Across Russia, aging Soviet-era heating pipes, power grids, and dams have suffered mass failures—leaving hundreds of thousands of citizens without heat in freezing winters—because funds and maintenance crews were diverted to the war.
Russia’s fertility rate has dropped to roughly 1.4 births per woman (below replacement level), male life expectancy lags far behind the EU average (around 67–68 years in Russia vs. ~79 years in the EU), and hundreds of thousands of young men have been killed, permanently disabled, or exiled.
Even if the war ended tomorrow, Russia has permanently burned through a generation of young workers and fathers it cannot replace.
Putin is and has been bad for Russia.
Russia is a political outcast. But politicians are stupid.
“EU imports record amount of Russian LNG as foreign dependence grows”
“The EU Remains the World’s Biggest Buyer of Russian Gas Despite Sanctions”
Did you notice Europe went woke, and now they’re being overrun by savages while the EU still believes in transgenderism and the climate change hoax?
Why does Putin reject transgenderism and the climate change hoax?
Because he’s not woke!
Russia already has double the savages, with 13% of their population Muslim vs 6.5% in the EU.
True conservatism is measured by strong families, rule of law, and flourishing communities—not just anti-woke speeches. By actual metrics, Putin’s Russia is in deep crisis. Russia has one of the highest abortion and divorce rates in the world, plummeting church attendance, rampant alcoholism, and a catastrophic birth rate collapse. Meanwhile, Moscow relies on millions of Muslim migrants from Central Asia to prop up its workforce, leading to major social friction.
You won’t get any argument from me that Brussels bureaucrats are stupid and hypocritical. President Trump has been calling them out for years for funding Putin’s war machine while lecturing everyone else about “green energy.”
But let’s not confuse EU stupidity with Russian strength. Selling discounted LNG through backdoors doesn’t save a nation that is committing demographic and moral suicide.
look at the health of families and faith. Russia has sky-high abortion and divorce rates, empty churches (despite Kremlin photo-ops), rampant alcoholism, and a catastrophic birth rate collapse—made vastly worse by feeding hundreds of thousands of young men into a meat grinder.
Because Russia’s native population is shrinking, Putin is flooding Russian cities with millions of Muslim migrants from Central Asia to fill factories and military quotas.
selling discounted LNG doesn’t save a country in moral and demographic freefall. LNG is a fraction of the pipeline revenue Russia lost, and no amount of gas money fixes a collapsing birth rate, sky-high abortion and divorce rates, empty churches, and millions of Central Asian migrants replacing a shrinking native population. Both Brussels and Moscow are rotting from within—just in different ways.
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