For now, no such plans have been announced. Head of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, Anatoly Artamonov, *proposed* shifting 2 trillion from "ineffective expense categories" to "greater priorities" (everything war-related).

Source: www.rbc.ru/economics/23...

I am still using Twitter and this platform once in a blue moon. I don't write threads anymore. However, over on Substack, I post weekly updates on the Russian economy.

Most recent - waiting for the ru CB key rate decision: camarra.substack.com/p/madi-kappa...

While it is easy to explain away DC's erratic behavior toward European allies by calling Trump a Russian asset, which he probably is, China is not the sole long-term threat to the US economic dominance. The other is the EU.

Trump’s idea of peace - a piece of Ukraine for russia, a piece of Ukraine for America, and piss for Ukraine.

"New regions may appear within Russia, as was the case with the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Medvedev."

With the reiterated intent, Russia makes clear that any ceasefire would be temporary at best. www.rbc.ru/politics/14/...

My latest on Assad’s collapse, asylum in Russia, and what it means for Russia’s influence in the ME and Africa

200k euros of Finnish taxpayer money was given to a Finnish religious organization that had priests ordained in Russia after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, reports Demokraattii. demokraatti.fi/eduskunnalta...

@olgalautman.bsky.social and I did a deep dive into Nomma Zarubina, the alleged Russian intelligence operative (link in a follow-up tweet). As part of the Malign Influence Operations newsletter, we will be publishing deep dives into Russian and other influence agents, operations, and orgs.

On this day 30 years ago Russia launched an illegal invasion of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) in an attempt to recolonize the free Chechen people. ChRI won that war against the empire without international support.

Image: Russian troops in Grozny in 1996.

Geopolitics with markets - Trump, Zelenskyy, Macron meet, defense stocks crash on the expectations of "peace." The example below is RHM. Oh, don't you ever change.

. @kapparov.bsky.social and I did a very detailed deep dive into the Russian agent arrested last month. Here is our investigation!

Also we just launched this substack exactly for these type of covert and malign influence operations, so please subscribe

#OpEd The Eurasian Economic Union means Kazakhstan suffers from the sanctions on Russia and even inadvertently funds the war. It's time to leave, argues @kapparov.bsky.social.

It is difficult to estimate the full extent of the new round of sanctions yet. It'll clear up after Dec. 20 when Directive 2 comes into effect. The most obvious impact is reflected in the negative shock to the RUB/USD exchange rate driven by a combination of factors.

Importing Russian sanctions by Kazakhstan - the x-rate case: