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By Olga Samofalova

The Russian economy has got used to and overcome the effects of sanctions.
After a difficult first half of the year, when Russia's oil and gas revenues fell sharply and the budget faced large deficits, the Russian economy has begun to emerge from its slump. The growth of the co...

By Olga Samofalova

Russia has been selling its Urals grade crude oil above the sanctions price ceiling for two months now. However, the West it appears is in no hurry to adjust their sanctions policy, although it initially threatened to do so every two months. The US and Europe are not silent for...

By Olga Samofalova

India is promising to drastically cut its purchases of Russian oil as the price of Middle Eastern oil has become more attractive. It would be a major blow for Russia to lose such a large buyer, and particularly given the current sanctions. However, analysts are confident that...

By Sergey Manukov

Russia supplied India with the lowest volume of oil in 7 months in August, according to Kpler and Refinitiv. This is partly due to the fact, writes Oil Price, that many Indian oil refineries (refineries), the main consumers of Russian Urals oil, have closed for scheduled maintena...

The Russian Federation may extend the reduction in oil exports that began in the summer to October, but there is no final decision yet. In July-August, the country reduced supplies abroad by 500,000 barrels per day (b/d), and in September it promises to keep the decline at 3
00,000 b/d. The expecte...

By Sergey Manukov

The deliveries of Russian oil by sea on August 21-27 reached, according to Bloomberg, 3.4 million barrels per day. This is 880 thousand barrels per day. more than a week earlier. Russian oil exports in the penultimate week of summer reached the maximum for 8 weeks, i.е. almost tw...