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You laughed at Anshlag, shamed your parents for watching it at every holiday gathering, wolfed down your potatoes and chicken, and ran off outside.

All they wanted was to laugh for a while and, for a couple of hours, forget the aching knee and their vanished youth — forget that it was the 1990s, there was no money, and the only place that paid decently was the market stalls. Forget, too, that despite all your teenage antics, they still had to feed you, clothe you, keep you away from drugs, and educate you so you could become someone with a profession whose name they themselves had never even heard. 🍽️

And Gena Vetrov and Sergei Drobotenko helped them do exactly that. While you — a skinny, ungrateful brat, throwing on your new jacket from the hanger next to your father’s Yugoslav raincoat and your mother’s five-year-old coat — just smirked. 😏

You could have found a Monty Python tape and brought it home to watch together with them.

But that is it now. Too late.

[⚠️ Context — Anshlag was a hugely popular Russian television variety-comedy show of the 1990s and 2000s, associated with broad humor that many younger urban viewers later mocked as tasteless or outdated. Gennady Vetrov and Sergei Drobotenko were among the comedians identified with that era, when light entertainment often served as an escape from the economic hardship and social dislocation of post-Soviet Russia.
⚠️ Why it matters — The post is really about generational memory: what looked kitschy to children often meant relief and emotional survival to their parents. For a Russian audience, it taps into a familiar reassessment of the 1990s — not as an ironic aesthetic, but as a hard period softened by cheap television, family routines, and small consolations.]

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👌🏻 The lace-like house of flour industrialist Nikolai Bugrov in Volodarsk!

Inside, there is a historical museum, while the grounds feature a charming courtyard with linden trees, larches, and flower beds.

Photo: @ted_ns

📍Coordinates: Yandex Maps
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☢️ Russians are rushing to buy nuclear bunkers amid the conflict in the Middle East. Demand has surged 2.5 times.

According to bunker manufacturers, orders have been coming in almost daily since early March, and the waiting list is already booked through the summer. Basic models start at 2 million rubles — a reinforced shelter for two people, buried at a depth of up to 5 meters. Inside is only the bare minimum: a kitchenette, a shower, a sleeping area, and even some equipment.

More expensive versions start at 20 million rubles, with up to 10,000 liters of water and fuel reserves, autonomous systems, and the ability to communicate through closed channels. A shelter like that can sustain life for several months.

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📈 Looking back, the economic surge Russia has demonstrated in the 21st century now seems almost ordinary. And yet GDP per capita has risen by a remarkable 811% since 2000, according to IMF data. Among major economies, only China saw faster growth in citizens’ incomes — but from a base that was half of Russia’s. More than that, even impoverished India, with its microscopic per-capita income base in 2000, failed to post growth rates comparable to Russia’s. Over the past quarter century, India’s per-capita income growth has been one and a half times slower than Russia’s.

At one point, Russia was often compared with Brazil, presumably because of the similarities in economic profile — a tilt toward oil, gas, and agriculture — as well as comparable scale and population. Yet Brazil, with its far milder climate, lagged behind Russia in the pace of economic development by a factor of four. Other major oil and gas exporters did not even make it into the top fifteen global economic leaders.

⚙️ But the future matters too. Japan’s experience shows that a country can produce astonishing economic results over a short stretch, only to slam on the brakes later and squander those gains within a single generation. And of course, the Japanese scenario is a nightmare for any government. China and South Korea, too, are at real risk of following that same path — decades of an economy drifting into torpor, no longer responding to any stimulus. A shrinking and aging population is a fundamental problem not only for Asia and Europe, but for Russia as well.

Still, over the next ten to twenty years, Russia has plenty of room for growth, even with its dismal demographics. The end of the military operation — which will come sooner or later regardless — will free up enormous material and labor resources. They will be redirected into infrastructure development, and not just transport infrastructure such as railways, ports, icebreakers, and pipelines, but also communications, including space-based systems, as well as hospitals, schools, and the foundations of a new, post-war economy.

🛢️ One major economic lesson Russia will clearly take from this period is the need to diversify energy exports as much as possible while moving further up the value chain. In other words, maritime trade is strategically safer than pipelines.

At the same time, it has turned out that products such as nitrogen fertilizers, unlike gas, are de facto almost impossible to sanction.

It has also become clear that selling diesel is far easier than selling crude oil. And yet Russian producers still have barely any presence in the methanol market and are not developing gas-to-liquids (GTL) technologies for turning natural gas into fuel, among other things.

🔧 Another crucial area is the domestic economy. A whole range of products — from microelectronics to machine tools to drones — is highly vulnerable to sanctions. And those sanctions are observed not only by unfriendly countries, but by nominal partners as well, such as India, Turkey, and China, which simply refrain from supplying Russia with a wide range of the high-tech goods it needs.

And these are precisely the sectors that will keep driving the Russian economy forward for at least the next couple of decades.

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💳 Russians’ loans and borrowings have reached 45 trillion rubles for the first time.

That is according to RIA Novosti, citing data from the Central Bank.

The figure rose by 2.2% over the quarter — or by 988 billion rubles — as of January 1, 2026.

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📍 Novorossiysk right now. A reminder: Russia exports oil through three key terminals — Novorossiysk, Primorsk, and Ust-Luga.

Pypa: the results.

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🇺🇸 American forces are attacking an Iranian group that was trying to capture a U.S. Air Force navigator.

A reminder: $60,000 was reportedly promised for his head.

Hard work.

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