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Ik geloof de Zweden: ‘Sweden has intelligence indicating that Russia is systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its lavish war spending and western sanctions.’

🇷🇺 Россия — гнилой колосс на глиняных ногах. Империя на крови, лжи и страхе трещит по швам. Экономика в агонии, регионы ненавидят Москву, народ спивается и вымирает. Ни один репрессивный режим в истории не пережил такого уровня гниения Распад России неизбежен? Вопрос времени? ✍️

NEW: Sweden has intelligence that Russia is systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its lavish war spending and western sanctions, its intel chief tells me and @ChristopherJM ft.com/content/04a9d0…

Велика війна — це передусім змагання економік. Щоб пройти війну на виснаження та післявоєнну відбудову, ми не можемо залишатись країною із сировинною економікою. Говорив про це сьогодні на Business Wisdom Summit. Наш шлях — це експорт готової продукції з високою доданою вартістю, розвиток машинобудування та сектору мілітарі-тех. Україна має посісти гідне місце на світовому ринку озброєнь. І ми маємо прискоритись, адже вікно можливостей довго відкритим не буде. Держава має нарешті усвідомити: якщо вона не допомагає бізнесу, то не повинна й заважати. Я послідовний прихильник дерегуляції та моделі, де приватна власність є абсолютно недоторканою. Відповідаючи на питання щодо перспективи повернення наших громадян з-за кордону: маємо відкинути усі ілюзії. Ніхто не повернеться просто так. Люди чекають реальних гарантій безпеки та створеного економічного підґрунтя. Також говорили і про кадри під час війни. Відзначив велику роль українських жінок. Адже доки одні чоловіки воюють та працюють, а інші ховаються чи втекли за кордон — саме жінки прийняли на себе відповідальність і стали тим фундаментом, який тримає наш тил і економіку. І це доведено цифрами.

The Gulag History Museum in Moscow is being transformed into Memory Museum, foced on “genocide of the Soviet people” and the war in Ukraine. Most staff, according to Verstka, are leaving. Here's a recording of the new management's first meeting with museum staff in February

1/ The Russian army has been taken over by an organised crime syndicate, says a Russian journalist. The mass recruitment of criminals now means that crimes and corruption of all sorts – murder, torture, extortion, prostitution, drug and alcohol smuggling – are now routine. ⬇️

Damn! Dit is echt gaaf gemaakt 🤣🤣🤣

#OpEd Understanding Russia's armed forces requires a combination of language skills and subject knowledge that technology cannot replace. Unfortunately, those skills are in short supply in the media and politics, warns Juuso Eskonmaa. themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/13/the…

Ook in de mijne...

Lots of Russian regions are raising their sign-on bonus right now. A few examples from the last weeks: Volgograd 2.6m YaNAO 3.6m Astrakhan 2.6m Rostov 3m Khabarovsk 2.1m Magadan 3.6m Sakha/Yakutia 2.1m KhMAO 3.55m Kab-Balk 2.4m Karach-Cherk 2.4m Novosibirsk 2.9m Sevastopol 1.5m

The chant “Europe, Europe, Europe” rising from the banks of the Danube, in front of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, where Péter Magyar @magyarpeterMP is celebrating his electoral victory, is a cry that shakes the conscience of us all. It lifts our spirits, fills us with joy, and gives us hope that this era of sovereigntism and populism may soon be consigned to the past. Long live a united and democratic Europe!

Ukraine's campaign against Russian energy export infrastructure have been more effective. One theory is that's due to degraded Russian air defense, but folks should consider that Ukraine has gotten much better in how it organizes and executes these strikes.

Ex-CIA Director, Petraeus: Russia no longer has the upper hand. Russia heavily outnumbers and outguns Ukraine. It has economy 12 times of Ukraine's. Yet Ukraine's forces are stopping Russians on the frontline. Russians have achieved less than Ukrainians have in last 2 weeks. 1/

Russian oil and gas revenues for March 2026 were 234 billion rubles below the expected level in the Federal budget coming it at 617 billion rubles vs the planned 851,3 billion rubles. They have to cover a shortfall of over 7 billion USD in Q1 from oil and gas revenue alone.

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The net profit of Russian oil giant Rosneft for 2025 decreased by 73% to 293 billion rubles. The revenue for 2025 decreased by 18,8% to 8,236 trillion rubles. That means the net profit for Q4 2025 was 16 billion rubles down almost 90% from Q4 2024's 158 billion rubles.

“Repeated attacks on the oil export terminals at Primorsk and Ust-Luga set storage tanks ablaze and halted loading activities for much of last week, cutting flows through the ports to about a third of the previous week’s level and reducing Moscow’s oil income by more than $1 billion. The attacks came just as the Kremlin had been cashing in on the war in the Middle East, boosting exports into a market that has seen prices for its crude more than double in a month. Ukraine shows no sign of easing up, despite pressure from some of its international partners to do so as global oil flows are hammered by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Weekly crude flows from Russia slumped by 1.75 million barrels a day to 2.32 million last week, but the impact on four-week average shipments was more muted, with shipments in the 28 days to March 29 falling by 280,000 barrels a day to average 3.31 million, the lowest in two months” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Russian oil major Surgutneftegas reported a 251 billion ruble loss for 2025 under the Russian Accounting Standard vs a 923,2 billion ruble profit in 2025. This is the worst loss in the company's modern history.

The war in Ukraine “is not, and was never, simply about land,” writes @KofmanMichael. “Moscow aims to impose its will on Ukraine and destroy it as an independent state with a distinct national identity.” foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraine…

8 million Americans demonstrated against Trump today. The biggest demonstration in US history.