16.4% — growth in Russia’s foreign trade surplus

▪️ $102.9 billion — Russia’s foreign trade surplus from January to August of this year. Year-on-year growth amounted to 16.4%, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) states. ▪️ 14.2% — to…

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Electricity consumption per capita is falling in the West and rising in the non-Western world, according to Our World in Data

One important marker of public welfare is electricity consumption per capita. On this measure, the core countries of the Western world have rolled back to the 1960s, Our World in…

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35% — a sharp rise in Russian LNG exports

— 3.36 million tonnes: exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia in September. Year-on-year growth was 35%, experts report. — The main increase came on the Asian route, thanks…

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