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Rosstat's latest retail figures show real growth in goods sales while leaving household purchasing power and the sources of spending unresolved.
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AnalysisBanking
Russian banks detected 163 counterfeit foreign banknotes in Q3 2026, compared with 81 in Q2, while detected ruble counterfeits rose to 1,302.
AnalysisRuble
Official data put cash in circulation at 22.7843 trillion rubles on October 1, 2026, with banknotes accounting for almost all the increase.
AnalysisBusiness
Rosstat's October 21 release shows sharply different price movements across industries, making the headline increase an incomplete guide to business costs.
AnalysisBanking
The Finance Ministry’s October 21 announcement identifies movable property, corporate rights and commodity-exchange products as separate experimental tracks.
AnalysisBudget
Finance Ministry results separate 177.128 billion rubles of debt placed from approximately 136.276 billion rubles of reported proceeds.
AnalysisMarkets
The Bank of Russia’s October 16 balance shows a much smaller fall, but the headline total cannot identify the transactions behind it.
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AnalysisEnergy
The IEA says refinery capacity constrains Russian diesel exports. Its October assessment separates export permissions from actual fuel production.
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Russia’s January to August current-account surplus reached $35 billion. The monthly figures and rising trade-settlement claims explain why that is not a cash total.
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