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Top businesses face debt crisis PRO Members Public
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Denis Kasyanchuk and Alexander Kolyandr and brought to you by The Bell. This week we dig into Russia’s corporate debt crisis, highlighting the 13 businesses with massive debt piles that have the central bank worried. War, sanctions
Yandex founder's $20 billion comeback PRO Members Public
Hello! This week we look at the comeback of Arkady Volozh, the Yandex founder who has struck it rich—again—thanks to a mega deal for his new AI infrastructure startup. From startup to sanctions and back again Last year, Arkady Volozh, one of the founders of Russia’s most
Russia prepares tax hikes. Again. PRO Members Public
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Alexandra Prokopenko and Alexander Kolyandr and brought to you by The Bell. This week we report on the government’s plans to raise taxes and cut spending to keep the state’s finances on track and make sure
Does Russia’s economy have a China problem? PRO Members Public
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Alexandra Prokopenko and Alexander Kolyandr and brought to you by The Bell. Our main story this week covers how Vladimir Putin’s trip to China laid bare Moscow’s reliance on Beijing. We also analyze growing calls for
Russia’s digital Gulag PRO Members Public
Hello! This week we look at Russia’s plans to significantly tighten control and surveillance on the internet through a spate of new laws, restrictions and punishments. Online crackdown looms Russia’s parliament has spent all summer passing a raft of prohibitive legislation to give the authorities more control and
Russia’s investment climate is still getting worse PRO Members Public
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Alexandra Prokopenko and Alexander Kolyandr and brought to you by The Bell. This week our top story is a look at what Exxon Mobil’s possible return to Russia, and charges against a billionaire food manufacturing tycoon, tell
Russia's fuel crisis PRO Members Public
Hello! This week we analyze Russia’s domestic fuel crisis, what it says about the war, the state of the economy and how it could affect peace negotiations. Ukrainian strikes hit Russians at the pump A new wave of Ukrainian long-range drone attacks on Russian oil refineries has triggered the
Could foreign investors flock back to Russia? PRO Members Public
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Alexander Kolyandr and Alexandra Prokopenko and brought to you by The Bell. This week our main story is a look at whether foreign investors might return to Russia if Western sanctions were lifted. We also look at the
Fallout from the Alaska summit PRO Members Public
Hello! This week, as Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders meet Donald Trump in the White House, we analyze the fallout from the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and why it is seen in Moscow and beyond as a triumph for the Kremlin. The Alaska summit: No deal,
The state of Russia’s economy as Putin meets Trump PRO Members Public
Hello! Welcome to your weekly guide to the Russian economy, written by Alexander Kolyandr and Alexandra Prokopenko and brought to you by The Bell. As Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet in Alaska, we take stock of how the Russian economy is faring after three-and-a-half years of war, and the
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