Russia and economic war by the west #2

Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-February 2023 increased by 2.6% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 140.3 million tons.

The volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 65.4 million tons (+4.9%), including: coal – 31.7 million tons (+9.4%), cargo in containers – 7.7 million tons (-27.3%), grain – 9.4 million tons (an increase of 1.8 times), ferrous metals -3.2 million tons (-36.5%), mineral fertilizers – 4.7 million tons (+29.6%), ore – 1.4 million tons (-37.5%), cargo on ferries — 0.8 million tons (+22.8%).

The volume of bulk cargo transshipment amounted to 74.9 million tons (+0.7%), including crude oil – 44.1 million tons (+6.4%), petroleum products – 23.4 million tons (-9.2%), liquefied gas – 6.0 million tons (-6.2%), food cargo – 0.9 million tons (+29.1%).

111.4 million tons of export cargo were overloaded (+4.1%), import cargo – 6.0 million tons (-19.1%), transit cargo - 10.7 million tons (-7.7%), coastal cargo - 12.3 million tons (+13.7%).

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Arctic basin amounted to 15.9 million tons (-3.0%), of which the volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 4.5 million tons (+7.1%), bulk cargo - 11.4 million tons (-6.5%). The cargo turnover of the ports of Murmansk amounted to 9.5 million tons (+0.2%), Sabetta – 4.6 million tons (-4.0%), Varandey – 0.9 million tons (-18.8%) and Arkhangelsk – 0.3 million tons (-42.3%).

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Baltic basin amounted to 43.5 million tons (+3.8%), of which the volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 16.7 million tons (-4.0%), bulk cargo – 26.8 million tons (+9.2%). The cargo turnover of Ust-Luga ports amounted to 22.6 million tons (+26.5%), Primorsk – 11.3 million tons (+14.4%), the Big Port of St. Petersburg - 6.0 million tons (-36.7%), Vysotsk – 2.1 million tons (-20.7%).

Cargo turnover of seaports of the Azov-Black Sea basin amounted to 43.8 million tons (+3.5%), of which the volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 20.7 million tons (+17.3%), bulk cargo – 23.1 million tons (-6.3%). The cargo turnover of the ports of Novorossiysk amounted to 24.7 million tons (-0.1%), Taman – 6.9 million tons (+1.4%), Tuapse – 3.7 million tons (+1.7%), Caucasus – 2.2 million tons (+20.9%), Rostov-on-Don – 2.2 million tons (-0.7%).

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Caspian basin amounted to 0.9 million tons (+3.1%), of which the volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 0.5 million tons (+18.4%), bulk cargo – 0.4 million tons (-9.7%). The volume of cargo transshipment of the port of Makhachkala decreased to 0.5 million tons (-13.0%), the port of Astrakhan increased cargo turnover to 0.4 million tons (+27.1%).

The cargo turnover of the seaports of the Far Eastern basin amounted to 36.2 million tons (+2.7%), of which the volume of transshipment of dry cargo amounted to 23.0 million tons (+1.5%), bulk cargo – 13.2 million tons (+4.9%). Cargo turnover of Vostochny ports amounted to 14.9 million tons (+13.7%), Vanino – 5.2 million tons (-9.8%), Vladivostok – 5.1 million tons (+0.5%), Nakhodka – 4.4 million tons (+7.3%), Prigorodnoye - 2.4 million tons (-15.0%).

In January 2023, 6802 passenger ships (-6.1%) were served at seaports and 475.0 thousand people (+21.1%) were served at sea passenger terminals, including the number of passengers sent from ports amounted to 464.4 thousand people (+20.8%), arrivals - 10.7 thousand people (+38.4%). There was no service for transit passengers.

The main number of passengers was served at specialized passenger terminals in the seaports of Sevastopol – 453.6 thousand people (+20.5%), Yalta – 10.4 thousand people (+4.0%), Sochi – 4.7 thousand people (an increase of 1.5 times).

Bloomberg reported on Sunday that India will not breach Western sanctions on price over oil imports. India has significantly increased oil imports from Russia since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.

India not obligated to buy Russian oil below Western price cap - Indian oil ministry source

NEW DELHI, March 14 (Reuters) - India is not obligated to buy Russian oil at rates below the price cap imposed by the Group of Seven (G7) and other Western nations, an Indian oil ministry source told Reuters on Tuesday.

India has not signed any agreement with the Western powers to impose a price cap on Russian oil, added the source, who could not be named due to the confidential nature of the matter.

(Reporting by Nidhi Verma, Writing by Sakshi Dayal; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)

About three-quarters of Russian oil trades occur without Western facilitators and outside the price cap, says Ben Harris

Nabiullina commented on the search for Russian reserves abroad

A Bloomberg correspondent during a press conference noted, citing foreign regulators, that they could not find the $300 billion in Russian reserves that fell under sanctions. According to her, regulators say they have found much less and the numbers are very small. The journalist asked if it could be that Russia does not have so many arrested reserves and the Central Bank somehow hid everything.

"As for the reserves, I can't help here," Nabiullina responded. :

Peskov agreed with Medvedev, who advocated pirated copies on the Internet

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation also said that he was downloaded films from torrents.
MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that he agrees with the opinion of the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who advocated the distribution of pirated copies of Western intellectual products on the Internet.

Earlier, Medvedev called for such a step, which should cause maximum damage to Western companies and lead them to bankruptcy.


"I agree with Dmitry Anatolyevich. We are dealing with pirates - [these are] those who robbed us, those who seized our assets, stole our assets / <...> The phrase "pirated content" should be perceived under a different sauce" , Peskov told reporters. When asked if he himself uses torrents, Peskov said that he did not know how to do this, but films were downloaded to him from torrents.