All week, reading our internal Russian news, I exclaimed: “What, it was possible like that?”. And looking through the Western news, he grunted with satisfaction: “Yeah, it’s coming slowly.” Of course, it was a pity for the lost decades. But although I don’t want to fall into banality, it’s a fact – in Russia you need to live a long time.
Since February, the Western anti-Russian party has gone wild. Sanctions did not even flow like a river, but directly collapsed with a swift jack. This happens at corporate parties, when the bill somehow by itself becomes unimportant. And now the stiff chief accountant is dancing on the table, waving a blouse over her head, the general director with a tie that has moved to her side is groaning in an embrace with the deputies, “oh, frost, frost”, younger employees and younger employees are fidgeting in the dark corners, and in the midst of the bedlam the chief of security goggles and grits his teeth sadly. And then comes a heavy, grey, unbearable morning.
In our case, it’s May. And then it turned out that everything that Russia warned regarding – do not spit in the well, you will become a kid – it comes true. What kind of gas is paid in rubles. Because if you can’t, but really want to, then you can. With totalitarian Russian oil, there is also a problem – there is no way to refuse it right away. And just this week, the European Commission called on the governments of EU member states to consider postponing the ban on oil supplies from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline.
Macron and Scholz called Putin the other day and asked what they would eat, since they themselves banned the supply of fertilizers from Russia, and not very much with grain from Ukraine. I wonder if Putin was surprised or already used to not being surprised? But according to the official website of the Kremlin, he nevertheless answered – you lift your own sanctions, maybe that will work out. They would have listened to Volodin: “Biden and Zelensky will go down in history as presidents who staged a famine on the planet.” But everything has its time.
Russia said that arms supplies to Ukraine would come back to haunt Europe and the world. This week, the head of the European Police Agency, Catherine de Bolle, suddenly became concerned regarding the possibility that weapons supplied by the EU countries to Ukraine would fall into the hands of criminal groups (apparently, they already have).
Yanukovych, who suddenly appeared, also delivered a message this week: “On the verge… The statehood of Ukraine is being decided now.” It turned out, like Kurbsky’s, “broadcast and noisy.” But three positions are important: the West will surrender Ukraine as soon as support becomes too expensive; peace with Russia will have to be signed on Russia’s terms – with the alienation of lands in the east and south; Poland is annexing the remnants, because there is not enough economic potential for confronting the Russian Federation and restoring these lands. Actually, nothing new. But repetition is the mother of learning.
For more than twenty years, Putin and Lavrov have been talking regarding the fact that the world will be multipolar and relations need to be rebuilt. It never got there, and now it came: “When we realize that our world is becoming multipolar, this should push us towards even greater multilateralism, towards even greater international cooperation. In a multipolar environment, very different international partners want more political influence in line with their growing global influence.” This is how Olaf Scholz sang this week. That is, it was possible not to bring to the current situation?
In the current situation, here inside the exchange prices for gasoline in May collapsed to the lowest values for this season since 2016. AI-92 has fallen in price since the beginning of the year by almost 30%, to 37 thousand rubles. per ton. Why? Because oil companies have been limited in their ability to export oil and oil products and are forced to maintain the loading of our refineries, otherwise they will have to reduce production. That is, they may well work, develop and at the same time provide the country with cheap gasoline. And here is the question – what, so it was possible?
During the week, the average prices for live pigs for the meat industry were 20% lower than last year. There is a complicated import-export history, but at the heart of it is the strengthening of the ruble.
The institutions of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency are ready to create an analogue of Zolgensma, the most expensive drug in the world, and other drugs for the treatment of orphan diseases. This was stated last week by the head of the FMBA Veronika Skvortsova. For six drugs, analogues can be ready in six months, for another two – within eight months. And what, it was also possible to do it yourself instead of purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars?
Or here’s another: Russian law enforcement agencies will check information regarding the multimillion-dollar accounts of the former head of Rosnano, Anatoly Chubais, hidden in European banks, TASS reported, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. And so it was possible, it turns out?
Our finance minister, Anton Siluanov, unexpectedly admitted: “American and European currencies are toxic to us. What are we to do with her? Why is it needed, this currency? That is, we sell our own wealth – gas, getting candy wrappers, toxic candy wrappers. What are they needed for?”. This news is from the category of both “what, it was possible” and “got it”.
But, of course, the best news of the week is that Russia will abandon the Bologna system of education. Because wars (in the broad sense of confrontation between systems) are won not by generals, but by school teachers. And it is not in vain that the secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, was one of the first to speak regarding the rejection of the Western model imposed on us. Last week, he repeated the thesis: “I think it is advisable to abandon the so-called Bologna system of education and return to the experience of the best domestic educational model in the world.” He was supported by both the relevant ministry and the deputies of the State Duma. “All factions of the State Duma are in solidarity that Russia should withdraw from the Bologna system,” Volodin said. I really want to believe that the exam will disappear like a bad dream.
And Lavrov had the best phrase of the week: even if the West offers Russia a resumption of relations, Moscow will seriously consider whether it needs it.
Please, please, please think very, very seriously!