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Sanctions Impact in Russia


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2022 Mar 4, 11:05pm   53,717 views  411 comments

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Pay $1.81/gallon for gas
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Russia/gasoline_prices/?source=patrick.net

Gas in Russia is cheaper than Gas in Qatar or Bahrain or Saudi Arabia.

Unable to buy $30/lb luxury Italian Cheese, $30/bottle midrange French Wines, expensive German Audio Equipment... what will the Russians do with themselves?

Eat local cheese, drink local beer, and buy the same audio equipment from China that's on Amazon USA

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86   RWSGFY   2022 Mar 21, 3:22pm  

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
Eric Holder says
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
I got an interesting lesson from Russia here. They were prepared for sanctions, they sanction proofed their economy


Have they really? How do you know?


I read it on the news, that any impact isn't going to affect them much, as they prepared and were expecting it. Basically, they aren't stupid.


Words are just that, words. In reality, even their fucking personal yahts are being arrested abroad, not to mention hundreds of billions in foreign reserves. Doesn't look not stupid at all. They obviously miscalculated.
87   RWSGFY   2022 Mar 21, 3:22pm  

GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - A luxurious super-yacht linked to the owner of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, who is currently under British and European Union sanctions, docked in Gibraltar on Monday and was then detained by the authorities.
Western sanctions on Russian oligarchs over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine have triggered an exodus of luxury yachts from Europe in recent weeks, with several heading towards the Maldives, which has no extradition treaty with the United States.
Reuters TV footage showed the “Axioma”, believed to be owned by Dmitrievich Pumpyansky, owner of steel group TMK, moored at Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, flying a Maltese flag.
Britain imposed sanctions on hundreds of Russian individuals and entities last week, enabling authorities to freeze their assets.
Refinitiv data show the 72-metre vessel is owned by a British Virgin Islands holding company called Pyrene investments. An article published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists as part of the Panama Papers leaks names Pumpyansky as a beneficiary of the holding.
89   clambo   2022 Mar 21, 4:33pm  

The price of left-handed screwdrivers luckily hasn’t changed.
90   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 21, 5:54pm  

(google translate)

The Union of Consumer Rights called for a ban on household chemicals

There are no reasons for the rise in price of household chemicals in Russia. Pavel Shapkin, chairman of the National Union for the Protection of Consumer Rights, told Radio 1 about this.

“As for household chemicals, it’s generally ridiculous here, because everything is produced in Russia, no one flies Fairy from France. Therefore, when there is talk about the fact that the ruble has fallen, it has no economic justification. Therefore, this is an attempt to cash in on the panic that has gripped the population,” Shapkin said.

At the same time, he called the rise in prices for personal hygiene products a positive factor, since it only harms people.

“I don’t understand at all how we have survived to the point that we cannot do without household chemicals. Although 50 years ago this question did not bother anyone. In general, it is not clear how the Russian nation has survived for thousands of years without household chemicals. I think it's being used too much. We rub more than 4 million tons of the Russian population into our hands, face, plates and so on every year. All this adversely affects health, the skin, destroys the immune system, and affects the environment. I believe that it is generally necessary to ban household chemicals and replace them with simple folk remedies, for example, baking soda, ”the expert added.
91   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 21, 7:18pm  

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
You need to accept payments? Dan Bongino offers payment processing that's not attached to big tech.


This. And use cash whenever possible.
92   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 21, 7:23pm  

The White House confirmed Monday they expect certain parts of the world to suffer a food shortage as an effect of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We do anticipate that higher energy fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical food supplies for countries around the world,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

She said food shortages were not expected to hit the United States, but rather countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Reports have pointed out that both Ukraine and Russia produce a significant portion of the world’s wheat, corn, and barley as well as energy and fertilizer.

Despite Psaki’s assurance that the United States would not suffer a food shortage, the cost of fertilizer, grain, and fuel could have a significant impact on food prices.

Psaki said the White House could continue to work with global organizations to “do everything we can” to “mitigate” food shortages around the world.

“There are active discussions now,” she said, describing the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle the problem.”We’re certainly mindful that even if we’re not seeing an impact at this moment that sometimes supply chain impacts can have a lagging impact.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/21/white-house-warns-of-global-food-shortages-after-ukraine-invasion/?source=patrick.net

Higher Food Prices are Putin's fault, because Russia is a basket case we import nothing from... or something.
93   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 22, 10:27am  

Russian Shoppers Are Literally Fighting Each Other for Sugar

In scenes reminiscent of the last days of the Soviet Union, Russians are scrambling to get their hands on basic goods.





In videos coming out of towns and cities across Russia, crowds of people are shouting, jostling and climbing over each other to grab the last bags of sugar in barren shops.

https://t.me/bazabazon/10695?source=patrick.net

Some stores have imposed 10kg rations per customer, and there have been reports of people attacking anyone they think is panic-buying. In one scuffle in the northern city of Severodvinsk, a man with five packets of sugar in his shopping basket was punched five times in the face during a confrontation with an angry shopper.

Russians who remember the turmoil of the last few years of the Soviet Union know only too well the importance of grabbing rare goods when you see them, particularly in a crisis. Sugar is usually bought in bulk by Russians who are going to preserve large amounts of fruit, or make samogon, high-proof moonshine popular in the countryside.

“It’s a madhouse,” one shopper in the southern Russian city of Volgograd told a local media outlet last week. “The shop assistants say sugar is re-stocked every now and again, but it’s immediately snapped up — people are deliberately standing watch in order to buy it all.”

Sugar shortages have been the first major material consequences of the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine felt by many ordinary Russians. It’s been caused by a cocktail of factors that include government attempts to regulate prices, skyrocketing demand and a crash in the value of the Russian currency. Although Russia imports a relatively small amount of sugar, the gyrations in the value of the ruble mean foreign companies are suddenly unwilling to sign contracts with their Russian counterparts.

The cost of sugar went up as much as 31 percent last week, but it’s not the only thing becoming hugely expensive. With an exodus of foreign businesses and Western sanctions expected to lead to shortages of foreign goods, the price of imported cars and household items, like hoovers and televisions, has also shot up more than 20 percent since the war began.

Despite an emergency rate hike and the imposition of currency controls, it looks unlikely the authorities will be able to bring inflation under control. Prices in Russia rose 4.3 percent, more in the two weeks following the invasion than the government hoped they would over the entire year. Predictions for Russia’s annual inflation rate now range from about 15 percent to as high as 30 percent.
94   Ceffer   2022 Mar 22, 10:37am  

Putin is removing a cancer. Surviving cancer is never fun. Short term pain, long term gain.
Problem is, it's our cancer, too, but our MSM tries to make us think it's daisies and woke fairies.
95   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 22, 10:40am  

(google translate from Russian)

Kostroma residents continue to complain about empty shelves in stores 11:30 18 MAR 2022
Elizaveta VISHNEVSKY
Kostroma residents continue to complain about empty shelves in stores
Desert shelves in Kostroma stores have become the norm.
They say that sugar is still in short supply.

Some goods continue to disappear in Kostroma stores, KOSTROMA.TODAY found out.

As Tatyana, a Kostroma resident, told a KT correspondent, yesterday in the Pyaterochka store on Prospekt Mira, 21 again there was no sugar and salt. According to her, the shelves have been empty for a long time, and the sellers do not know anything and do not give any forecasts.

“Of course, I was in the store in the evening, perhaps everything was taken apart. But sugar is still hard to find, although the problem was promised to be solved by March 14th. And the shelves are still empty. In some networks, only lump sugar remained, ”the woman told us.
In addition, the Kostroma woman noted that literally everything has risen in price in stores, and you simply cannot look at prices without tears.

Recall that in the Kostroma region introduced a rationed sale of certain goods. In particular, granulated sugar is now sold up to 2 kg per person, sunflower oil - up to 2 liters, wheat flour - up to 5 kg, cereals - up to 5 kg, vermicelli - up to 10 kg. True, the amount of issuance may vary in different stores.
In Pyaterochka on Nekrasovsky Highway, too, sometimes there is no sugar and salt.
96   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 22, 10:41am  

Ceffer says
Putin is removing a cancer.


Putin is cancer:

Covid lockdowns - check. Vaxx passports and QR codes - check. Crackdown on peaceful protest - check. Censorship - check. Unjustified immoral aggressive war - check. 53% heathen nation attacking 87% Christian nation - check.
97   Patrick   2022 Mar 23, 3:18am  

AmericanKulak says
And use cash whenever possible.



I've really been enjoying using cash everywhere. Clerks are often surprised.
98   Patrick   2022 Mar 23, 3:20am  

Eric Holder says
Vaxx passports and QR codes


Ukraine is worse. Much worse.

The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits.

That was before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Now, it appears the Ukraine government is expanding Diia, illustrating how digital apps can be employed during wartime.


https://themadtruther.com/2022/03/22/how-ukraine-government-is-converting-digital-id-system-into-wartime-tool/?source=patrick.net
99   RWSGFY   2022 Mar 23, 8:50am  

Patrick says
Eric Holder says
Vaxx passports and QR codes


Ukraine is worse. Much worse.

The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits.


Of course: Zelensky is a globohomo Nazi Jooish clown so it suits him.

But our Great Christian Leader!!! How could he fall for all this NWO bullshit?!!!
100   RWSGFY   2022 Mar 23, 8:53am  

Following a fourth package of sanctions against Russia by the EU on the 15 March 2022, the Swedish Dockworkers Union has given notice about nationwide blockade against Russian ships and cargo.

The statement of the Swedish Dockworkers Union is the following:

“The Swedish Dockworkers Union has given notice to the employers’ organization Ports of Sweden about upcoming industrial action against ships going to and from Russia as well as Russian cargo in all Swedish ports.

The solidarity action will be carried out to support the dockworkers and the suffering working class in Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion.


I guess Swedish dockworkers didn't like seeing pregnant wives of dockworkers of Mariupol being bombed right in the maternity wards.

Or they are all Nazis.
101   Booger   2022 Mar 24, 3:45am  

It's not a sanction.
It's a special economics operation.
102   Booger   2022 Mar 24, 3:47am  

Grocery shopping in Russia with before and after price comparison:
https://youtu.be/BUFMSNgNh3s?source=patrick.net

Looks a lot like Bidenflation.
103   RC2006   2022 Mar 24, 5:54am  

Booger says
Grocery shopping in Russia with before and after price comparison:
https://youtu.be/BUFMSNgNh3s?source=patrick.net

Looks a lot like Bidenflation.


I thought it was going to be 1000+% increases.
104   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 24, 9:03am  

RC2006 says
Booger says
Grocery shopping in Russia with before and after price comparison:
https://youtu.be/BUFMSNgNh3s?source=patrick.net

Looks a lot like Bidenflation.


I thought it was going to be 1000+% increases.


The night is young....
105   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 25, 12:56am  

Indians buy second round of multimillion barrels of Russian oil since the West announced sanctions:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/598762-india-buys-3-million-barrels-of-russian-oil-report?source=patrick.net
106   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 25, 1:02am  

Booger says
It's not a sanction.
It's a special economics operation.


And it's not a deterrent man, nobody c'mon man, nobody, in this Administration ever said that. - Xiden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC7SYv3UL0&source=patrick.net
107   Patrick   2022 Mar 25, 3:56am  

Honestly, the US just keeps fucking up over and over.

Because of these sanctions, we are going to have Russia, China, and India close together, and the US petrodollar is toast.
108   richwicks   2022 Mar 25, 4:32am  

Patrick says
Honestly, the US just keeps fucking up over and over.

Because of these sanctions, we are going to have Russia, China, and India close together, and the US petrodollar is toast.


This is what bugs me.

Either you and I are wrong, or our government is fucking stupid, or they are doing this purposely.

Can I really be smarter than an intelligence group? I don't think that's possible. They must purposely be doing this OR we're wrong but I agree, this seems to be the only possible outcome, but hopefully, I'm stupid, and it's not the outcome.
109   Patrick   2022 Mar 25, 4:35am  

richwicks says
Can I really be smarter than an intelligence group?


I think groups of people can be remarkably stupid, more stupid than any normal person.
110   richwicks   2022 Mar 25, 4:42am  

Patrick says
richwicks says
Can I really be smarter than an intelligence group?


I think groups of people can be remarkably stupid, more stupid than any normal person.


I regard group stupidity to be a property of propaganda. If it bleeds into government policy, that's quite dangerous.

I still have the belief that even groups of stupidity are manipulated. I guess I'm about to find that out if that's true or not.
111   WookieMan   2022 Mar 25, 6:49am  

Patrick says
I think groups of people can be remarkably stupid, more stupid than any normal person.

The problem with groups is the best and brightest are not necessarily leading. Or they're an expert in one realm and suck at everything else that they're required to do. Or brown nosed ass wagons to beat their way to the top by lying and cheating to superiors.

I'm on a elected government board (tiny). The President is an amazing person, great community involvement and action. That said, she's not very bright. We're rehabbing a building for what we do (sorry no doxxing for me) and I'm literally the only one that knows anything about it. I already had to correct the architect we hired to save $20k in plumbing because we're on slab and the bathrooms were not logically placed.

From the outside looking in, sometimes I think elected officials are just trusted. Most are frankly stupid and the community never cares or are too lazy to run. The dumb asses elected then get to hire the bureaucrats. Now bring this to the Federal level and you get our current situation. The problem is I had no decision in any of it for the most part. I didn't vote for Biden or CA or IL Congressthings. We're a government of sales people that have no business being involved in hiring. Case in point, the current SCOTUS nominee. Now factor in who is on committees that hire and fire leadership. It's a shit show.
112   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 25, 9:49am  

Indian State Oil Company announces 2nd multimillion barrel oil purchase from Russia.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/india-buys-russian-oil-pressure-sanctions-83522091?source=patrick.net
113   Blue   2022 Mar 25, 9:53am  

AmericanKulak says
Indian State Oil Company announces 2nd multimillion barrel oil purchase from Russia.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/india-buys-russian-oil-pressure-sanctions-83522091?source=patrick.net

Their Russian oil imports are still less than 1% of total imports.
114   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 25, 10:00am  

Blue says
Their Russian oil imports are still less than 1% of total imports.





Last year. It won't change quickly, but if they keep getting deals, it's hard to pass up double digit percentages under the market rate. In the mid 90s, people said the same about Chinese Imports. "Just wait until the Chinese buy American made Caterpillars in the next few years - it'll balance out, you'll see, Free Trade Heretic!"
115   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 25, 11:03am  

AmericanKulak says
Blue says
Their Russian oil imports are still less than 1% of total imports.





Last year. It won't change quickly, but if they keep getting deals, it's hard to pass up double digit percentages under the market rate. In the mid 90s, people said the same about Chinese Imports. "Just wait until the Chinese buy American made Caterpillars in the next few years - it'll balance out, you'll see, Free Trade Heretic!"


So Russian oil will flow to India with a discount (estimated at 30% currently) and the oil which was flowing there before will flow somewhere else. Net result: Russia gets 30% less for their oil and India spends 30% less on their energy. I say it's a win for everybody (except Russia, but who gives a fuck about Russia).
116   RWSGFY   2022 Mar 28, 7:55am  

Russia’s oil exports shriveled by more than a quarter in the week March 17-23 compared with the prior week, according to industry data.
The country’s average daily shipments reached 495,300 tons, down 26.4% from the week before, according to figures seen by Bloomberg. That’s equivalent to about 3.63 million barrels a day.
While the data didn’t indicate any reasons for the change, the sharp decline came as Russia faces a growing movement by many of its usual customers to find alternative energy supplies after the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Only a handful of nations -- including the U.S. and the U.K. -- have imposed explicit bans on imports of Russian oil. Still, many of the country’s traditional customers have undertaken a self-imposed buyers’ strike in response to the war. Major companies from Shell Plc to TotalEnergies SE have said they intend to phase out purchases of crude and fuel from Russia.
The decline in exports was at least partly driven by lower volumes from Russia’s ports on the Baltic Sea and in the Asia-Pacific region, according to loadings data.
Total oil production over the period was little changed, dropping 0.3% from the week before, the output numbers show. The nation pumped about 11.08 million barrels a day on average in the period, according to Bloomberg calculations.
117   still1bear   2022 Mar 30, 4:41pm  

I have some bad news for you guys. Sanctions do work, and I have a close personal experience with the sanctions against USSR. They are not so effective as the gov't claims them to be but not so useless as you would like. They are like carpet-bombing and over time take some serious toll.

Comparing USSR to modern Russia: Russia is smaller and weaker, it is more dependent on the West. The Ukraine war is a good example: Ukrainian military using Western supplies is standing up to the outdated and mismanaged Russian army. The same will happen to the Russian economy.
118   richwicks   2022 Mar 30, 10:04pm  

still1bear says
Comparing USSR to modern Russia: Russia is smaller and weaker, it is more dependent on the West.


For what? Financial fraud and endless wars? What does the West produce today? Electronics are made in China and those are toys nobody needs a newer, better, television. In fact, the TV you have right now can last forever. You now what is going to fail on it? A capacitor and when it does, you're going to throw it away. It will be a $1.00 part that is EASY to find, because the enclosure will be bulging out. Easy fix if you can't get a new teeeveee.

The USSR needed GRAIN back in the day. What do they need from the United States today?

India is a good trading partner with them, they are getting along PRETTY well with China. Russia has MASSIVE amounts of resources beyond just energy. Ukraine still produces a lot of food though, THAT might create a problem, and not just for Russia, but Europe as well.

Some people think that a famine is being purposely engineered. I'll say, that's possible.. We'll find out in 12 months.

I think that the result of this stupid aggression toward Russia is going to made a trading bloc between Russia, India, and China and "the West" is going to be left out in the cold. If Russia and China can make reasonable deals in the Middle East, get them to stop fighting one another like a bunch of savages, and get them to adhere to peace agreements, they will be able to take over the entire region in under 2 decades. The Ottoman Empire could be recreated as a loose Confederacy in just a matter of years.

The goddamned Neocons are either asshole idiots, OR they are intentionally trying to destroy the country. I don't know which.
119   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 31, 10:57am  

richwicks says

For what? Financial fraud and endless wars?


For agro tech. For car/truck manufacturing tech. For military tech. For medical tech. For comms tech. For oil/gas extraction tech. I can go on but you get the picture.
120   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 31, 12:51pm  

Latest news: Russia relaxes auto manufacturing standards to allowing cars w/o airbags, w/o cat converters, w/o ABS/ESC and adhering to emission regulations less strict than Euro-1.
121   EBGuy   2022 Mar 31, 1:39pm  

Patrick says
I've really been enjoying using cash everywhere. Clerks are often surprised.

Imagine trying to use one of these around town...


122   Misc   2022 Mar 31, 1:55pm  

Russians will definitely be negatively impacted by the sanctions.

The Europeans will definitely be negatively impacted by Russia's counter sanctions. I think they will cut the flow of natural gas tomorrow.

In America we won't have to worry about the electricity going out. Europeans are going to have to deal with that.

I guess in the UK they dealt with store shelves being empty recently. There will be panic buying throughout the EU because there are going to be shortages.

I was hoping for a short war with minimal loss of life. We are what 36 days into the conflict. The Syrian conflict lasted about 10 years.
123   Booger   2022 Mar 31, 2:00pm  

Eric Holder says
Latest news: Russia relaxes auto manufacturing standards to allowing cars w/o airbags, w/o cat converters, w/o ABS/ESC and adhering to emission regulations less strict than Euro-1.


We need that here too.
124   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 31, 2:05pm  

Booger says
Eric Holder says
Latest news: Russia relaxes auto manufacturing standards to allowing cars w/o airbags, w/o cat converters, w/o ABS/ESC and adhering to emission regulations less strict than Euro-1.


We need that here too.


I dunno, man: there are plenty of classic car in my neighborhood and when I drive behind one of them on weekends I catch myself not missing the stench of unburned gasoline and the rest of the shit they emit. As for ABS/ESC and airbags - yes, couldn't care less.

PS. Apparently, every car manufactured in Russia was also required to have a Glonass chip in it (Glonass is a "Russian GPS" which currently doesn't work, because they failed to maintain a proper satellite constellation for it). This requirement has been dropped too.
125   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 31, 2:27pm  

Germany mulls nationalization of Gazprom, Rosneft units – Handelsblatt
By:Reuters
Updated: Mar 31, 2022, 11:20 PDT•1min read

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German economy ministry is considering expropriation of Gazprom and Rosneft units in the country amid concerns about security of energy supply, business daily Handelsblatt reported on Thursday, citing government sources.

The discussions between top ministry officials and Chancellor Olaf Scholz aim to prevent massive power cuts if either of these companies, which are systemically important for Germany, gets into difficulties, the newspaper reported.



Both companies are irreplaceable on the German energy market with Gazprom Germania operating large gas storage facilities and Rosneft Deutschland being a key player in the petrol, diesel and kerosene refinery markets, Handelsblatt reported.

At the same time, the companies risk a “technical bankruptcy” as banks and business partners have been distancing themselves from companies with Russian owners since Western sanctions against Russia came into force, Handelsblatt said.

Gazprom Germania, Rosneft Deutschland and the German economy ministry could not be immediately reached for comment.

(Reporting by Zuzanna Szymanska; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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