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Electrical/Power Systems Engineer, Internationally Recognized Queen of Anglo-Saxonia, ✏️*sigh* there will be typos, and spontaneous threads
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Nov 9 7 tweets 2 min read
By all means, ignore the word of the former president of Estonia. I agree with him. The U.S. has enough leverage now to push Russia over the edge towards economic collapse if it chooses to

It’s not there yet, it needs a shove. The U.S. has enough to shove. There may be consequences towards giving it a shove. But it is way weaker than people believe it to be. And people miss understand what “financial collapse” looks like.

It doesn’t have to happen quickly, people may not realize they’re in it WHILE it’s occurring.
Nov 6 11 tweets 3 min read
‼️ The OFZ Federal Bond Thread: Russia’s Race to Secure A Loan!

Q4 Auction Day 5 of 13

Part 3

Now with a new even higher KEY RATE!

(Don’t forget to use your bookmark) Image Here is the Table of Contents.
Nov 5 23 tweets 6 min read
‼️ The Russian Government Bond Index - US Election Day Trading!

A RECORD BREAKING 25 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH TRADING BELOW 101!

Todays trading day means this streak has unseated the previous record of 24 days set in 2009

Let’s look at the rankings!

investing.com/indices/russia… x.com/prune602/statu…Image Just a reminder, all the data comes from the above linked website that has data going back to the beginning of 2003.

The dates attached will be one day off from the date in Moscow. Therefore, the data for trading that just ended will be under the date 4 November 2024.
Nov 5 5 tweets 2 min read
‼️ 🇷🇺 NWF THREAD

As of November 2024:

The liquid portion of the Russian National Welfare Fund holds:

👉 220.533 Billion Yuan (-1.250 billion)
👉 283.575 tons of gold (-8.919 tons)
👉 0.410 Billion Rubles (-1.202 billion)

And that’s it.

(Totals for October) Per usual, the liquid assets continue to shrink.

Be especially careful of the National Welfare Fund news this week because a lot of it is just revaluations. Image
Nov 5 20 tweets 6 min read
‼️ Russia: “Peas for tangerines: Russia returns to 1990s barter trade over payment problems”

IT’S HAPPENING!!!

And we’re going to catch Russia in a lie! Wait for it…

moscowtimes.ru/2024/11/04/gor…Image I told you about when the Ministry of Economy developed these plans, now they’re ready to use them.
Nov 4 25 tweets 7 min read
‼️ The Russian Shopping Mall Thread

What are the problems with Russian retail space and shopping centers?

Part 6 Image Here is the table of contents.

We’re going to pick up right where we were at the end of Part 5
Nov 4 13 tweets 3 min read
I swear, if you listen to this nonsense and have just been nodding and accepting what Tucker has been saying, I seriously want you to take a step back and re-evaluate what he just said. The possibilities that I see here are either Tucker is being disingenuous and lying to your face.

OR

He really believes this and is suffering from a mental health crisis. That he has begun to really believe in these conspiracy theories.
Nov 4 24 tweets 6 min read
‼️ The Russian Shopping Mall Thread

What are the problems with Russian retail space and shopping centers?

Part 5 Image Here is the Table of Contents make sure you start at the beginning.

I’m going to pick up right where left off in Part 4
Nov 4 24 tweets 6 min read
‼️ The Russian Shopping Mall Thread

What are the problems with Russian retail space and shopping centers?

Part 4 Image Here is the Table of Contents

Make sure you read from the beginning, and I’m going to pick up right where we stopped in Part 4
Nov 4 25 tweets 6 min read
‼️ The Russian Shopping Mall Thread

What are the problems with Russian retail space and shopping centers?

Part 3 Image Here is the Table of Contents, be sure to start at the beginning
Nov 4 25 tweets 7 min read
‼️ The Russian Shopping Mall Thread

What are the problems with Russian retail space and shopping centers?

Part 2 Image Here is the table of contents

Don’t forget to start reading from the beginning
Nov 3 22 tweets 5 min read
‼️ The Russian Shopping Mall Thread

What are the problems with Russian retail space and shopping centers?

Part 1

(You asked for this) Image Here’s the Table of Contents since I have a feeling this will take a while.
Nov 3 7 tweets 3 min read
‼️ “Taiwan announces complete halt to machine tool supplies to Russia”

Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs made this announcement and attributed the change to introduction of export control measures

kommersant.ru/doc/7281752Image “The agency said it had increased the fine for the initial violation of sanctions against Moscow by 15 times, to $31.3 thousand. Exporters…were required to indicate the final recipient to confirm that the machines will not enter the Russian Federation through third countries.” Image
Nov 3 10 tweets 3 min read
‼️ The Russian Government Bond Index Saturday Trading!

And it remained low again yet again. Saturday was a working day this week (it was a 6 day work week, it’s rare)

The low was 96.54 and closed at 96.56

Let’s look at the rankings!

investing.com/indices/russia… x.com/prune602/statu…Image Just a reminder, all the data comes from the above linked website that has data going back to the beginning of 2003.

The dates attached will be one day off from the date in Moscow. Therefore, the data for trading on Saturday will be under the date 1 November 2024.
Nov 3 4 tweets 2 min read
‼️ Russia: UAE starts supplying Butter

90 tons have been imported since 18 October.

interfax.ru/russia/989968Image I have to show you something that made me giggle.

So when I read the headline my first thought was “how much butter does UAE actually produce?”

Because when I think of UAE, cows don’t really come to mind.
Nov 3 15 tweets 4 min read
‼️ Russia: “The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to increase the recycling fee for agricultural machinery by 5 times from 2025”

The recycling fee in Russia is essentially just a tariff

Do they want farmers to go bankrupt?

🇷🇺: More Revenue! 🤑

interfax.ru/business/989992Image “An exception is planned for next year for agricultural tractors up to 340 hp, for which the fee will not be increased.”

But… Image
Nov 2 21 tweets 7 min read
‼️ The OFZ Federal Bond Thread: Russia’s Race to Secure A Loan!

Q4 Auction Day 5 of 13

Part 2: Charts!

Now with a new even higher KEY RATE!

(Don’t forget to use your bookmark) Image Here is the table of contents:
Nov 2 7 tweets 3 min read
‼️ Russia: National Welfare Fund Update

“The government has submitted to the State Duma a bill that establishes the possibility of privatizing…JSC "DOM.RF" while maintaining the controlling stake (50% + 1 share) of the state”

Why do I mention the NWF?

interfax.ru/russia/989845Image If you look in the illiquid assets of the Russian NWF, you will see

“ordinary shares of JSC "DOM.RF" - 137,000.0 million rubles”

I don’t know how many shares there are of DOM.RF total, but this could be a way for the Russian government to turn illiquid assets into liquid ones Image
Nov 1 9 tweets 2 min read
‼️ Russia: “The leader of the “A Just Russia – For Truth” faction, Sergei Mironov, will introduce a bill to the lower house of parliament to ban the dissemination of information among children that denies “traditional spiritual and moral values.””

FFS!

moscowtimes.ru/2024/11/01/vgo…Image Look, I know people will look at this and either think that “traditional values are good” or that “that doesn’t effect me so why be upset about it”

But I want to show you where this path leads.
Nov 1 8 tweets 3 min read
‼️ The Russian Government Bond Index had another day of low trading continuing the trend following the Key Rate hike to 21% that was announced last Friday.

Today had a low of 96.31 and closed at 96.39

Let’s look at the rankings!

investing.com/indices/russia…Image Just a reminder, all the data comes from the above linked website that has data going back to the beginning of 2003.

The dates attached will be one day off from the date in Moscow. Therefore, the data for trading that just closed will be under the date 31 October 2024
Nov 1 56 tweets 16 min read
‼️ Russian Railway October Loading Update Thread

It got worse EVEN Worse

Let me explain….

(Note: Loading is in Millions of Tons, and please read the thread before you ask why the chart looks the way it does) Image I’ve been having issues with threads posting correctly recently, so I’m just going to have to do this one post at a time.

So, it’s not over until I say it’s over.