TASS The third year of the war showed that the Kremlin is still capable of mobilizing the economy to continue the fight. Even taking into account record military spending, the budget is still moving without major holes, although at the cost of reducing social spending. But problems and imbalances in the economy are growing, and managing it is becoming increasingly difficult. Our regular authors Alexandra Prokopenko and Alexander Kolyandr summarize the economic results of 2024 in 10 graphs.

Foreign carriers, which by the end of the third year of the war were still flying to Russia, are canceling flights one after another due to the threat to the safety of passengers after the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane. The airline concluded that the cause of the disaster was “external physical and technical influence.” The Azerbaijani government also considers the version of the crash as a result of a Russian missile strike to be the most likely.

Based on the results of a preliminary investigation, Azerbaijan Airlines concluded that its plane was subject to “external physical and technical impact” before the crash, according to a statement cited by Reuters. Surviving flight attendant Zulfugar Asadov also told Media.Az about the external strike.

The head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Dmitry Yadrov, issued a statement about the crash of the AZAL Airlines Embraer 190 plane. Here's what he said : The situation at the Grozny airport during the hours of the crash was “very difficult”: due to attempted attacks by Ukrainian UAVs, “the “Carpet” mode was introduced, providing for the immediate departure of all aircraft from the specified area.” “In addition, there was dense fog in the area of ​​Grozny airport.

The past year can, without exaggeration, be called an election year - more than 70 campaigns took place around the world in countries with a population of 3.7 billion people , of which 1.64 billion voted . The UN states that 2024 was the year with the maximum election activity in the history of mankind. The populists who benefited from this activity were primarily those who gathered votes from voters dissatisfied with high inflation.

THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT. 18+ Starting today, December 27, the Central Bank has changed the rules for calculating exchange rates and will begin to combine data from both the exchange and over-the-counter markets. “In the context of expanding volumes of over-the-counter transactions, this will increase the representativeness of official rates,” explains the Central Bank.

THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT. 18+ Even those analysts who are positive about the prospects for the US economy and the US stock market in 2025 admit that investors should expand their portfolio to include other assets.

THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT. 18+ Before the New Year, we decided to select ten companies that look attractive at current levels and at the same time have clear growth drivers in 2025. Here we talked about the first five, in this text we analyze the second.

A record election year has resulted in record failures for governing parties around the world. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BELL'S FOREIGN AGENT. 18+ The past year can, without exaggeration, be called an election year - more than 70 campaigns took place around the world in countries with a population of 3.7 billion people , of which 1.64 billion voted .