The Tatarstan Independence Committee has prepared an up-to-date list of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Republic of Tatarstan
An up-to-date list of defense industry/military industrial complex enterprises based on materials from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and the current list of large enterprises in the […]
Grain Instead of Tanks: How Moscow Pressures Central Asia Through Economic Power
Russia is increasingly using its grain exports as an economic pressure point in Central Asia. According to Eurasianet, shipping difficulties in the Black Sea have pushed Russian producers and exporters […]
Siberia Pays for Moscow’s War: The Imperial Centre Shifts the Cost Onto the Regions
Russia’s war against Ukraine is increasingly damaging not only the front lines but also the regions Moscow uses as the empire’s human and resource reserve. Buryatia is one of the […]
Central Asia Is Moving Away from Moscow: The Imperial Centre Is Losing Its Periphery
For decades, Moscow treated Central Asia as its sphere of influence. But that model is increasingly breaking down. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are pursuing multi-vector foreign policies, expanding […]
Russia Begins to Feel the Cost of War: Fuel Shortages Hit the Imperial Centre
Russia, one of the world’s major oil powers, is ending August unable to fully supply its own gasoline market. Following strikes on oil refineries, production has fallen to around 80,000 […]
The Roads No Longer Lead to Moscow: How the Post-Soviet Space Is Building a New Trade Map
For decades, Moscow was the main transport hub for much of the post-Soviet space. Railways, pipelines and trade routes were built according to a simple “periphery-to-centre” model. Russia’s full-scale invasion […]
Russia is running out of money to support the agricultural sector – intelligence
Budget crisis forces the Kremlin to cut support for its own agribusiness The consequences of such a decision, including a decrease in investment activity in the agricultural sector and a […]
Bankruptcies of oil companies have begun in Russia due to the collapse in oil prices
The tightening of US sanctions, which has driven down Russian oil prices to $40 per barrel and below, has led to a series of bankruptcies of small oil companies in […]
Russian economy stuck between stagnation and inflation – intelligence
Russia’s economy virtually stopped growing in 2025 amid tight monetary policy, falling investment and weakening domestic demand, increasing the risk of stagflation and entrenching stagnant trends in civilian sectors, the […]
Minnikhanov in China – and in Tatarstan, the head of Ikon Tyres is sounding the alarm: “The market downturn is being exacerbated by the expansion of cheap Chinese imports.”
During Tatarstan’s Rais Rustam Minnikhanov’s latest working trip to China (as part of visits to cities like Chongqing and other business hubs), the Russian tyre sector once again found itself in […]
“Budgets are crumbling.” Russian regions have slashed spending due to a lack of funds
Russian regions are launching budget cuts and slashing social spending, due to a growing revenue crisis that has affected two-thirds of Russia’s regions. Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar demanded urgent proposals […]
The most dangerous crisis facing Russian cities
For the 25th year in a row, Putin and his accomplices have left regions, territories, and republics without gas, electricity, or water—in other words, without the most basic necessities of […]