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« on: April 02, 2012, 01:58:27 am »

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/economic-21st-century-civilization-unravel-latvia-goes-from-boom-to-bust/

Economic 21st century civilization unravel: Latvia goes from boom to bust

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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2012, 04:59:55 pm »

Russian Stock Market Closed Indefinitely - Will Not Reopen: "The Situation Has Been Recognized As An Emergency

04/23/2012 - 23:01

RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET CLOSED INDEFINITELY
Posted on April 23, 2012 by LT

This is not a drill – the Russian Stock Market has closed indefinitely, and reports are that the Russian Government has declared it an Emergency. In other news, the entire cabinet of The Netherlands resigned this morning because they could not come to an accord over budget and austerity issues…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/russia-will-not-reopen-situati...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dutch-cabinet-resigns
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Eurozone Crash, Dutch Government Collapse, Czech on the Verge of Collapse and Russian Stock Market Halted
http://www.dailypaul.com/228478/russian-stock-market-closed-indefinitely-will-not-reopen-the-situation-has-been-recognized-as-an-emergency
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2012, 05:01:47 pm »

Russia's MICEX-RTS exchange suspends stocks trading

MOSCOW, April 23 | Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:13am EDT

(Reuters) - Russia's MICEX-RTS exchange suspended trading on its main stock market section on Monday at 1156 GMT for one hour until the end of the main trading session, the exchange's spokesman said.

The exchange, which calculates both Russia's benchmark indexes RTS and MICEX, said in a statement on its website that the trading was suspended due to "a problem in displaying orders and deals in the main stock market section."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/russia-stocks-suspension-idUSL5E8FNADK20120423



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RTS Ruble Version Being Weighed, Bourse Chief Aganbegyan Says

By Jason Webb - Apr 25, 2012 5:05 PM ET

A ruble version of the dollar- denominated Russian Trading System Index (RTSI$) may be created, according to Micex-RTS President Ruben Aganbegyan.

The exchange, which was formed out of the merger of the ruble-denominated Micex and the RTS in December, is considering whether investors in the index want the option of hedging currency exposure in rubles, Aganbegyan said at a press breakfast in London yesterday.

“What we hear from a lot of international participants is that basically they wouldn’t mind if the market is traded in local currency,” Aganbegyan said. “That means that the index should also be in local currency and investors should choose their own options in FX.”

The exchange will make a decision soon, he said.

Micex-RTS will introduce other measures designed to boost trading volume this year, including extending the period for settling trades to three days and the creation of a central securities depositary, Aganbegyan said.

Rules governing Russian pension funds may also be changed this year to allow them to invest more of their funds in stocks, he said.

The 30-day average value traded on the Micex-RTS was $792 million compared with $1.2 billion in trades in shares of 10 of Russia’s biggest companies in London, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-25/rts-ruble-version-being-weighed-bourse-chief-aganbegyan-says.html
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2012, 07:19:28 pm »

Apparently, this is their PR site. They left the following message:

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                      The technical suspension of trading to be extended
The situation has been recognized as an emergency. Further actions will be announced shortly.

For further information, please contact the Public Relations Department at (495) 363-3232.


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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2014, 07:26:16 am »

A Full-Blown Economic Crisis Has Erupted In Russia

The 8th largest economy on the entire planet is in a state of turmoil right now.  The shocking collapse of the price of oil has hit a lot of countries really hard, but very few nations are as dependent on energy production as Russia is.  Sales of oil and natural gas account for approximately two-thirds of all Russian exports and approximately 50 percent of all government revenue. So it should be no surprise that the fact that the price of oil has declined by almost 50 percent since June is absolutely catastrophic for the Russian economy.  And when you throw in international sanctions, wild money printing by the Central Bank of Russia and unprecedented capital flight, you get the ingredients for an almost perfect storm.  But those of us living in the western world should not be too smug about what is happening in Russia, because the nightmare that is unfolding over there is just a preview of the economic chaos that will soon envelop the whole world.

So far this year, the Russian ruble has fallen nearly 50 percent against the U.S. dollar.  That is a monumental shift.  And as the collapse of the ruble has accelerated in recent days, we are seeing scenes in Russia that are reminiscent of the Weimar Republic.  For example, just consider the following excerpt from an article that just appeared in the New York Times…

    Scenes that Russians hoped had receded into the past reappeared on the streets: Currency exchange signs blinked ever-changing digits, and Russians rushed to appliance stores to buy washing machines or televisions to unload rubles.

    “We are seeing an economic crisis,” Natalia V. Akindinova, a professor at the Higher School of Economics, said in a telephone interview. “We are seeing a sharp devaluation of the ruble at a time when the central bank doesn’t have the reserves to influence the market, as it did in the past crises.”

In a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding, the Central Bank of Russia made an astounding move.  Last night it raised its key interest rate from 10.5 percent all the way up to 17 percent.

It was hoped that this desperate move would keep the ruble from plummeting any further.

And it did work for a few minutes, but then the collapse of the ruble resumed.  This is how Zero Hedge described the carnage…

    For those wondering if the CBR’s intervention in the Russian FX market with its shocking emergency rate hike to 17% overnight calmed things, the answer is yes… for about two minutes. The USDRUB indeed tumbled nearly 10% to 59 and then promptly blew right back out, the Ruble crashing in panic selling and seemingly without any CBR market interventions, and at last check was freefalling through 72 74, and sending the Russian stock market plummeting by over 15%.

So why is this happening now?

Well, the biggest reason for the freefall of the ruble is the fact that the Central Bank of Russia just printed up about 625 billion rubles and gave it to their friends at Rosneft.

Rosneft is an absolutely massive oil company that is controlled by the Russian government.  For months, Rosneft has been asking for a bailout (sound familiar?) to refinance loans that can no longer be rolled over with western banks because of economic sanctions.

And on Friday they got one.

In an attempt to quietly slip this massive injection of new money past everyone, Rosneft issued 625 billion rubles worth of new bonds just before the weekend and the Central Bank of Russia gobbled most of those new bonds up with freshly created money.  Unfortunately for Rosneft and the Central Bank of Russia, the rest of the world took notice…

    With the oil giant in a bind, the central bank ruled that it would accept Rosneft bonds held by commercial banks as collateral for loans.

    Rosneft issued 625 billion rubles, about $10.9 billion at the exchange rate at the time, in new bonds on Friday. The identities of the buyers were not publicly disclosed, but analysts say that large state banks bought the issue.

    When these banks deposit the bonds with the central bank in exchange for loans, Rosneft will have been financed, in effect, with an emission of rubles from the central bank.

So that is what led to the panic selling that we witnessed on Monday.

Meanwhile, money is being pulled out of Russia at an absolutely staggering pace.  As confidence in the ruble and in the Russian financial system disappears, wealthy people are feverishly trying to protect their wealth by moving it somewhere else.  The following is an excerpt from an editorial that Mohamed A. El-Erian recently penned for Business Insider…

    Rather than bring in buyers at these substantially cheaper levels, Russian currency weakness is inducing more selling, including by a growing number of worried bank depositors who, instead of holding their savings in ruble, are opting for safer dollars. The larger the extent of this “currency substitution,” the bigger the scope for capital flight out of Russia. This puts even greater pressure on the currency, aggravating the output contraction, imported inflation, and the general sense economic and financial instability.

It has been estimated that total capital outflows for 2015 will reach an astounding $128 billion.

And this could just be the beginning of the economic troubles for Russia.

If the price of oil stays this low or goes even lower, the Russian economy will shrink.  The only question is how much it will contract…

    The Bank of Russia said Monday that the country could sink into a deep recession next year if oil prices remain at $60 a barrel. GDP could contract by as much as 4.7% in 2015, and then by a further 1.1% in 2016 unless oil prices pick up.

Sadly, it isn’t just oil producing nations such as Russia that are going to be devastated by the coming crisis.

Eventually, the entire globe is going to feel the pain.

Last week was the worst week for global financial markets in three years, and so many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the great financial crisis of 2008 are happening once again.  We have been living in a false bubble of relative stability for the past couple of years, but now time is running out.  The next great financial crisis is rapidly approaching, and 2015 promises to be the most “interesting” year that we have seen in ages.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/full-blown-economic-crisis-erupted-russia
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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2014, 06:30:57 pm »

http://uk.businessinsider.com/ruble-collapsing-2014-12
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The Ruble Is Crashing

The ruble is collapsing.

The currency dropped by as much as 9.3% against the US dollar on Monday — the biggest decline since December 15.

Curently, $1 gets you around 58.54 rubles. It opened for trading to day at 53.49.

This crash follows the Economy Ministry's announcement that GDP contracted by 0.5% from a year earlier, following a 0.5% increase in October.

"This is linked to sanctions first of all, oil and the panic we saw on the market in December. The damage to the banking system and consumer sentiment will take a long time to repair," Dmitriy Polevoy, the chief economist for Russia and the CIS at ING Bank of Moscow, told the Moscow Times.

Additionally, oil prices have crashed again on Monday.

The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil plunged to as low as $52.90 per barrel, a 4% decline, and Brent crude oil fell to its lowest price since May 2009 — falling as low as $57.37 per barrel.

Right now, Russia is on the edge of its first recession since 2009. Its economy took a serious beating following the sanctions imposed by the EU and US over the situation in Ukraine and the plunging oil prices.

Following the sharpest fall in Russia's HSBC composite output index since May — down to 47.6 in November from 49.1 in October — analysts began expressing pessimistic views about the state of the economy.

"The PMI survey found the Russian economy risking not only prolonged, but deep recession. We expect 1.5% GDP decline in 2015, but are prepared to see even deeper decline if current negative trends by the PMI survey continue," writes Alexander Morozov, the Chief Economist of Russia, CIS and the Baltics at HSBC.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/investigation-ordered-as-russian-river-turns-red/ar-AAiDvWP?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
Investigation ordered as Russian river turns red
9/8/16

Russian authorities have ordered an investigation into a possible pipeline break after a river in the nickel-producing Arctic city of Norilsk turned bright red.

Social media users began sharing photos of the unnaturally red Daldykan river on Tuesday, with some writing that it had also changed colour in June.

A few users suggested iron ore in the ground had changed the river’s colour, but others said industrial waste was a more likely reason. The river runs near to the Nadezhda metallurgical factory run by Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium.

Russia’s natural resources and environment ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that it was investigating complaints of unknown chemical pollution, possibly caused by a “break in a Norilsk Nickel slurry pipe”.

Norilsk Nickel denied an industrial spill into the Daldykan and said the “colour of the river today doesn’t differ from its usual condition”, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. But the company said it was temporarily reducing manufacturing work while it monitored the situation. The Norilsk mayor’s office said the city’s water supply came from other sources.

According to Denis Koshevoi, a PhD candidate at the Vernadsky Institute for Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, who is researching pollution in the area, Norilsk Nickel pumps chemical solutions from Nadezhda to a nearby tailings dam via pipes. It also pumps metal concentrates from ore mills to Nadezhda, he said.

“Periodically there are accidents when these pipes break and the solutions spill and get into the Daldykan – that’s why it changes colour,” Koshevoi told the Guardian.

“A leak into the river from the Nadezhda factory,” Norilsk resident Yekaterina Basalyga wrote under two pictures of the river on her Instagram account. “You get scared when you see this. And people are still gathering mushrooms and berries.”

Another commenter quoted the Bible passage in which the Lord tells Moses and Aaron to “strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood”.

Norilsk developed as a gulag camp in 1935 and is known for its harsh winters, two-month polar night and high level of industrial pollution.
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