In November Russia supplied some 280 thousand tons of coal illegally taken from the occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine to Europe, up by 18.6% MoM, or by 44 thousand tons. The largest exporters of Donbass coal are companies, controlled to the fugitive Ukrainian businessman Sergey Kurchenko. In particular, in October his two companies…
Azerbaijan, one of the richest in precious metals deposits countries in Eurasia, has increased gold and silver mining. The country produced 5,669 kg of gold in January-November, up 3.2-fold YoY. The State Statistics Committee reported that the extraction of silver increased by 67.9%, amounting to 566.800 kg. The stocks of finished goods, as of December…
Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov is interested in Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, a Ukrainian enterprise earlier seized by Russia-backed militants in the occupied Donbas, according to a Ukrainian MP, coordinator of Information Resistance analytical group Dmytro Tymchuk. Leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (“DPR”) are failing to revive operations of most of the “nationalized”…