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    DealBook: Who’s buying Russian stocks?

    When there is no free trading, there is no value discovery. At all. So whatever the prices are, formally, is irrelevant.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Russian airlines that use the (basically only ones that are supposedly Russian-produced) airplanes AN-24 and AN-26 announced that they will not be able to service or repair them anymore. The engines used in the airplanes were produced and serviced in Ukraine. Basically all Russian airlines are...
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Yes. Not just a general. 2-star general. That's a pretty high rank. May there be many more.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    AvtoVaz - the producer of Lada vehicles that stopped production because of lack of imported parts - is lobbying the government to rescind the laws that require ABS and other electronic systems in cars that are used in Russia. Return to the 80s.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Yakov Rezantzev was a 2-star general that was killed by Ukrainians but he's not the one run over by a tank. The man run over by a tank that later died was Colonel Yuri Medvedev.
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    Rubles

    Currency Exchange in Berlin Airport
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    Russia & Ukraine

    That info is incorrect. The man's rank was Colonel.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Analysis of the Russian KIA in first week of fighting based on decoration serial #s. https://informnapalm.org/en/medal-count-osint-analysis-of-real-russian-losses-for-the-first-week-of-hostilities-in-ukraine/
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    Russia & Ukraine

    The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's fables.The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable. The expression "sour grapes" originated from this fable.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-goals-scaled-back/31770879.html This is hilarious. "first phase of its military operation was complete and it would now focus on two eastern regions claimed by Russia-backed separatists". Apparently the "first phase" was to lose 10,000+ dead and 20,000+...
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Absolutely.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    The "you" is not personal :). Read it as "terrorists should not be rewarded"
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    Russia & Ukraine

    You do not reward terrorists.
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    Rubles

    CFD trading is illegal in the US. Apart from that, CFD transactions ultimately at some point need to be settled (AFAIU) in real FX. And since the ruble trading right now seems to be either completely frozen or extremely thin with artificially set rates, that would put a read damper on any CFD...
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    Russia & Ukraine

    BTW. The list I keep of Russian higher-ranks liquidated in Ukraine - rank of Lt. Col and above has grown to 36. 14 Lt. Col 16 Colonel 5 Major General (1-star) 1 Lt. General (2-star)
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Deserter. Not traitor. There is a difference.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/russian-soldier-ran-over-commander-with-tank-in-protest/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10644823/Russian-soldier-drives-TANK-commanding-officer-Ukrainian-journalist-claims.html...
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    Russia & Ukraine

    ? about $2.7 I think. Oh your mean the 323 - that's per kilo. So - about $4.5 per lb.
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    Russia & Ukraine

    Someone is a marketing genius (seen in a Ukrainian supermarket) (there is a cheese variety called "Russian Cheese". This one is marked "Anti-Russian Cheese")
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    Russia & Ukraine

    They are branding it as "Uncle Vanya's". That "B" you see in the video is the first letter in "Vanya" in Russian. The video is intriguing. It doesn't look like CGI. But it is too apropos to be real. I wonder.
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