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Russian customs claim that Gabon unexpectedly rose to the top of the list of suppliers of spare parts for Russian aircraft in 2023. Source: The Moscow Times Details: Ter Assala Parts, a Gabonese company, allegedly exported spare parts worth nearly US$1.

Across Putin's Russia, creaking infrastructure and a wave of accidents have plunged households into the cold in the depth of winter, fueling rare showings of anger and irritation in a country where public criticism has been increasingly quashed.

The Kremlin has cut housing and utility budgets every single year since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, explaining why many Moscow Oblast residents are complaining of unheated apartments during a -20 degrees C frost, Lithuania-based Russian economist Igor Lipsits said in an interview with NV on Jan. 10.

Russia reported 5.5% GDP growth in the third quarter of this year — reversing a 3.5% decline in the same period last year.

Companies are pulling out of Russia at a much slower pace than in the weeks after it invaded Ukraine.

Russia's economy could face a serious slump after the country's March presidential election — in which incumbent Vladimir Putin is expected to win.

A complex compensation mechanism for fuel companies, currency devaluation, increased demand due to the war, logistics disruptions, and stuttering production growth have combined to trigger price rises and deepening shortages at home in the Russian energy market. That is a real risk for the war in Ukraine.

A complex compensation mechanism for fuel companies, currency devaluation, increased demand due to the war, logistics disruptions, and stuttering production growth have combined to trigger price rises and deepening shortages in the Russian energy market.

Today's news: A Norwegian mountain climber has been criticised for not rescuing a sherpa. China's economy continues to falter. In Myanmar, a woman who ran charities is rearrested. India wants to revise the colonial-era criminal laws. Russian university offers one of its professors a dishwasher contract.

"People don't like depending on banks. Having cash means you have money," an economist told the Novaya Gazeta.