little update...

[maadmike]

The potential overwork stress is down now and I have, or have started to think I have, more time to post some pics and even write my comments.

So here I am posting the late photos of my little late doings from my phone, cause I still haven't cleaned up and repaired my camera to make some focused images.

Comments

[matrixmann]

Over here it's wood which has gone up in price very significantly.

But iron and steel are on the list of things which are hard to grab or expensive too.

What was it all which they have either material shortages and/or price explosions in now?
Wood, iron/steel, glass, even plastic (especially foil and packaging material - I think for simple consumer goods such as foods), rubber, caoutchouc, semiconductors (well, that's already been on for a while...), microchips...
Lots of basic material and resources.

[maadmike]

"What was it all which they have either material shortages and/or price explosions in now

[matrixmann]

Indeed, since the West can't do its new Cold War policy as aggressively anymore as they used to a couple of years ago, the talk about the ruble as a currency and what's currently going on with it has very much disappeared from the radar.
I gues... the only thing "stable" you can say about it is: No matter how bad the times, until now there's been nothing which erased it (or made it more worthless than the Hungarian Forint).

All the cry about material shortages and exploding prices for the few that is available on the market, it makes you wonder: Who said that Communists are too stupid to do economy and drown in lack of everything? (*cynical tone*)
Obviously, capitalists are too dumb too to do economy under their own, even self-written rules...

...It makes you want to say cynically: "Well, if you lack resources, go and dig in your mountains of trash that you inserted into the ground decades ago. It might be you can find some in there."

[maadmike]

"..It makes you want to say cynically: "Well, if you lack resources, go and dig in your mountains of trash that you inserted into the ground decades ago. It might be you can find some in there.""

Yss, I've heard that there are thoughts in EU mass media that we on a global scale are witnessing the prices rise through the some shortages but it would sound extremely stupid to declare some bullshit like this in Russian mass media while recently when our metal industry represents were asking Putin on air, to demand more metal on a government level, he has told that we couldn't artificially stimulate any production...
And what's now we have - three times more metal prices and again, will we produce more metal - the answer is Noway - what for if it is possible to produce less and make prices up to the sky...
In all other cases the situation is more less similar - Artificial problems with supply lines, with contrasts and here we are - the prices are up to the sky and the salaries are surprisingly stable!

[matrixmann]

The current shortages are a problem of the world market

[maadmike]

"And that's why there are such shortages in basic materials - or, if you can get a hold of them, there multiple times as expensive as normally and it takes a while until they will be delivered

[matrixmann]

Errr... If regarding the wood, I wouldn't even disagree with what he's said

[maadmike]

"So, with that already being the case in East Europe, why should there be no such business too ranging from Russia? Criminals and nature robbers always want to earn money through plundering natural resources as they please

[matrixmann]

Btw, meanwhile the question comes up for me, as an outsider, if Putin still has the long-term capabilities in order to interfere if state or big private enterprises do shit, raise prices and don't pay their employees as they please

[maadmike]

"Btw, meanwhile the question comes up for me, as an outsider, if Putin still has the long-term capabilities in order to interfere if state or big private enterprises do shit, raise prices and don't pay their employees as they please

[matrixmann]

I think I'm getting you here - even illogical decisions follow a pattern or an idea behind it. The question only is: What is that? What does it look like?
During the times those illogical decisions are made, it isn't recognizable what the big picture is. Which pattern they follow. Because there's a lot of true data and pieces of information missing.
Later when told and things don't need to be kept under a cover anymore, it becomes somewhat understandable what was going on at that time and the the acting protagonists didn't behave as stupid as it seemed on the surface before...

That circumstance nurtures the imagination about what's going on behind the curtain in the present...

[maadmike]

"the the acting protagonists didn't behave as stupid as it seemed on the surface before

[matrixmann]

Ts, the Tsar was one of the reasons Russia was once so behind in the world

[maadmike]

"They don't need a new Tsar, they need a crew of reasonable-thinking people who kick their ass and limit their cronyism!"

Absolutely! And more or less our top ruling class understands it, so undertakes some action to calm the masses down from time to time, mostly before election... just before a new event the bread and cheap beer start falling right from the skies, without any cronyism of course, it is illegal here... our ruling bunch sometime even clean out its rows, partly, to make a big show of unstoppable fight with corruption in all our mass media, forgetting to mention that this incredible corruption has been developing and flourishing during your ruling time...

But, let's stop this my endless criticism, it is unproductive and wouldn't make anybody happy if not only my English skills would get back to life a little...

[matrixmann]

Don't mind it, I didn't mean to initiate a debate through that.
Through other channels I only know the mantras that are being spun in your country that "all would be better with a Tsar again" and "the revolution with Lenin was a putsch from abroad; so this whole thing was unpatriotic, not Russian, and didn't get us anywhere", such kind of shit - which can be disproven already with mainstream knowledge about history...
Auto-suggestion based on manipulating history and emotions, not on facts.

[maadmike]

And other idea which makes me laugh about the claims of our modern capitalistic authorities that they couldn't control the wood stealing is not only the order we had at USSR in this sector of economy, without all the modern technologies of satellites observing, roads and train stations cameras, Internet and so on but... I remember, our old communists patriotic movies where our intelegence at ww2 was fighting with German coalition intelegence and it was like -winer, cold winds are blowing, our counterintelligence agents are seeing a small girl standing with empty prostrated hand near the train lines and asking for food but her very attentive eyes are counting the trains coming by and hidden weaponry on them, so agents took her and she had become the very trained German intelegence agent and so on... So, I would like to ask Putin to send his friend Medvedev to Siberia, let to get him maked up into Chinese, for example, and told him to count the trains full of wood going to China, let him even have some percent from the saved to budget