Russian Economy General News: #10

GarryB wrote:If the US goes hard line all the way sanctions on Russia they are in trouble themselves.

That would mean cutting themselves off from the worlds major source of Titanium and a lot of other materials as well.

It would ruin Boeing...

It would make NASA squirm because they would have no way of getting to or from the ISS for a few years...

At the end of the day all the hostility from the US has pushed Russia to look elsewhere... just because some tiny little country in Africa does not have the money the US does does not mean there is no value in trading with them for Russia.

In fact trading with small non wealthy countries can often be much more profitable than trading with a superpower that wants to limit your growth and maximise their profit margins.

Trade with the rest of the world will help both Russia grow and develop, but also the rest of the world grow and develop rather more than all these years of trading with western colonial powers.

Trade with the west for countries means accepting their demands and bending to their rules... which generally benefit no one but the west.

If you have ever worked in retail it is the richest customers that tend to be the tightest... if they are buying a lot of stuff they expect to get a deal... they expect to pay less than people with little or no money because they think their business is valuable. Many retailers see how wealthy they are and want their business, but by negotiating that way they will not actually earn much money from them at all because of all the incentives and bonuses they offer.

For Russia it makes more sense to look for trading partners that don't want to control Russia or tell her how to run her own affairs and expect the same from Russia... that is most of the rest of the world... including China and India...

What it is not is the EU and the west and the US in particular, who are always bringing up human rights issues, while at the same time murdering millions and causing the suffering of millions more with their sanctions and invasions and civil wars.... sorry colour revolutions...

Putin is right to focus on food production... suggesting Russia should become more financial is like saying they should look in to devil worship... hedge fund managers will be the end of the west... it is just smoke and mirrors with money... it is the next generation beyond buying a company and firing all its workers and stealing their pensions and then selling the company to the highest bidder for an immoral profit.

Companies should not be a vehicle for a quick buck for investors... companies are about employment and producing goods or services that people want or need, it is about the employees having a stable good paying job so they can support families... companies producing food that are successful can meet domestic demand and export the product to countries that need food too... everyone needs food... nobody needs hedge funds...

Trumpistan broke the deal. Maybe Russia and Iran should go ahead and make some deals: Su-30, S-400, Pantsir, Iskander...

And production of Su-30s in Iran will promote stability and peace in the region as it supplies these aircraft to Iraq and Syria and itself... hahahaha...

"Naftogaz" called the Russian conditions for the preservation of transit unacceptable

According to Vitrenko, the current contract does not meet European conditions. The head of Naftogaz also threatened that if Russia did not cease to provide Gazprom with exclusive conditions for the transit of gas through Ukraine, then the Ukrainian company has the opportunity to obtain compensation of ten billion dollars due to the lack of transit after 2019.

Hole wrote:Trumpistan broke the deal. Maybe Russia and Iran should go ahead and make some deals: Su-30, S-400, Pantsir, Iskander...

GunshipDemocracy wrote:BTW Now banderlogs want to sue for non-existence of service! new "European" invention

"Naftogaz" called the Russian conditions for the preservation of transit unacceptable

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PapaDragon wrote:Well he is more than welcome to not accept it, actually I am positive that it's Russia's preferred outcome

If he wants preview of Russia response he just need to see how US threat to drop INF went

Reuters: PDVSA transfers bank accounts of its joint ventures to Gazprombank

miketheterrible wrote: Not transiting gas through Ukraine especially on no contract won't be accepted by anyone. And no foreign court holds jurisdiction over Russia
 Gazprom and rest won't even indulge Ukraine on this one..

The government has published materials with key indicators of 12 national projects and expenditures on them for the next six years, as well as similar indicators for a comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of trunk infrastructure. The implementation of national projects and the plan will require more than 25.7 trillion rubles, of which 13.1 trillion rubles. It is planned to allocate from the federal budget more than 7.5 trillion rubles. - from extrabudgetary sources, over 4.9 trillion rubles. - from regional budgets. Another 147.8 billion rubles. will be spent from state extra-budgetary funds.

A comprehensive infrastructure development plan turned out to be more expensive than every national project. In six years, 6.35 trillion rubles will be spent on it, including 3 trillion rubles. from the federal budget. The second place in terms of expenditures is the national project “Safe and high-quality roads” with expenses of 4.78 trillion rubles, i.e., taking into account the comprehensive plan for infrastructure development, in the next six years it is planned to spend over 10 trillion rubles. In third place is the national project “Ecology” (4.04 trillion rubles).

For each program, the government has published key events and targets. For example, the integrated infrastructure development plan includes 9 federal projects: “Europe - Western China” (655 billion rubles), “Sea ports of Russia” (927 billion rubles), “ Northern Sea Route"(587.5 billion rubles.)," Rail transport and transit "(1.25 trillion rubles.)," Transport and logistics centers "(55.9 billion rubles.)," Communication between the centers of economic growth "(1, 71 trillion rubles.), "The development of regional airports and routes" (267.5 billion rubles.), "High-speed rail service" (621.8 billion rubles.), "Inland waterways" (276.4 billion rubles.). By 2024, the increase in production capacity of seaports should be 44 million tons (in 2018 - 19 million tons). The delivery time of transit container cargoes in the North-South direction is planned to be reduced from 2.5 to 2.1 days, in the Europe-Western China direction - from 3.2 to 1.6 days, in the West-East direction from 8.9 to 7 days. By 2024, 68 airfield complexes will be reconstructed, including 38 airports in the Far East.

The road development project will consist of four areas: the development of the road network (4.44 trillion rubles), the development of road facilities (279.5 billion rubles), the improvement of road safety (55.9 billion rubles), and roads for the Ministry of Defense Russia "(5.6 billion rubles.). The share of regional highways that meet regulatory requirements is planned to be increased in six years from 43.1 to 50.9%, the share of the road network of urban agglomerations from 42 to 85%. In the next six years, it is planned to approve more than 130 new standards and technical requirements. The number of cameras for photo and video recording on the roads in six years is planned to be almost doubled.

701.2 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the implementation of the national project “Ecology”, 133.8 billion rubles from the regional budgets. It is planned that more than 3.2 trillion rubles. will give investors. The main objectives of the national project are the elimination of unauthorized landfills within cities, reducing air pollution in large industrial centers, improving the quality of drinking water, and ecological rehabilitation of water bodies (the Volga, Lake Baikal and Teletskoye). Of the 12 federal projects included in the national project, the implementation of the best available technologies (2.4 trillion rubles) is the most expensive.

More than 1 trillion rubles. estimated costs for the implementation of national projects "Demography" (3.1 trillion rubles.), "Health" (1.72 trillion rubles.), "Digital Economy" (1.63 trillion rubles.), as well as "Housing and urban environment" (1.066 trillion rubles.). Less than 1 trillion rubles. required for the implementation of national projects "International Cooperation and Export" (956.8 billion rubles), "Education" (784.5 billion rubles) and "Science" (636 billion rubles). 481.5 billion rubles are needed for the development of small and medium-sized businesses and support for individual entrepreneurship, and 113.5 billion rubles for the national project “Culture”.

It is planned to allocate 1.37 trillion rubles from the federal budget for the implementation of the National Health Project, 265 billion rubles from regional budgets, 94 billion rubles from state extra-budgetary funds, 100 million rubles. accounts for extra-budgetary sources. The most expensive in this program will be the fight against cancer - it is planned to spend 969 billion rubles on it. The target indicators of the national project are to reduce the mortality of the working-age population to 350 cases per 100,000 people (now 485 cases), mortality from circulatory diseases from 588 to 450 cases per 100,000 people, a decrease in infant mortality from 5.6 to 4.5 cases per 100 000 people), an increase in the volume of exports of medical services by no less than 4 times as compared with 2017, to $ 1 million per year.

723.3 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the implementation of the national education project, 45.7 billion rubles from regional budgets, 15.4 billion rubles from extra-budgetary sources. By the end of 2021, it is planned to eliminate education in the third shift in Russian schools, by the end of 2024 to build and put into operation with the attraction of private investment 25 schools, to create 230,000 new places in general education organizations. Russia should rise in the top 500 global university rankings from 17th to 10th place.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of Russia until 2024" in May last year. On the basis of this decree, the government formed national projects in 12 directions and prepared a plan for the modernization and expansion of the trunk infrastructure.

Austin wrote:This was written by a person who is part of Putins Presidential Staff , Any idea what he is trying to say ?



Vladislav Surkov: Putin’s Long State

http://www.ng.ru/ideas/2019-02-11/5_7503_surkov.html

GarryB wrote:

According to Vitrenko, the current contract does not meet European conditions. The head of Naftogaz also threatened that if Russia did not cease to provide Gazprom with exclusive conditions for the transit of gas through Ukraine, then the Ukrainian company has the opportunity to obtain compensation of ten billion dollars due to the lack of transit after 2019.

The sooner Russia withdraws from the various european organisations and courts the better...

Putin's special representative noted the importance of the project on the sustainability of Runet

MOSCOW, February 12 - RIA News . The draft law on the sustainable work of the Runet is important for the Digital Economy program, since for its implementation it is planned to provide the Internet with the entire territory of Russia, the Presidential Special Representative for Digital and Technological Development Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti.
Peskov indicated that the draft law was aimed, among other things, at creating an infrastructure that would be able to ensure the efficiency of domestic Internet resources in case of impossibility to connect to foreign servers.

“Why is this important? In the framework of the Digital Economy program, it is supposed to provide Internet throughout the territory of Russia, connecting to the network not only individually the residents of the country, but also all strategic facilities, schools, hospitals and others. The risk that in the case of unfriendly actions from outside These or other elements of the digital infrastructure are disabled, must be excluded. And it is necessary to ensure the safety and sustainability of the system in advance, "he said.
Peskov recalled that the program prepared about 20 bills.
“And they are not prohibitive. These laws concern the regulation of data, biometric identification systems, the legalization of so-called digital currencies - and they were formed in the logic of creating opportunities while maintaining integration into world processes,” he added.
The bill introduced by senators Andrei Klishas and Lyudmila Bokova and deputy Andrei Lugovoy (LDPR) is aimed at protecting the stable operation of the Internet in Russia in the event of a threat to its functioning from abroad. According to the explanatory note, it is prepared taking into account the aggressive nature of the US National Cyber ​​Security Strategy adopted in September. Earlier, the State Duma adopted the draft in the first reading.