British Farmers Deliver 38 Off-Road Vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the 27th Humanitarian Convoy
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Russian Company Faces Massive Layoffs and Possible Closure
15/ "Does anyone even need us as a Russian company? They're taking away our last bread, we'll be downsized to 200 people, 150, 100, and so on, until we disappear altogether.
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Russian Firms Face Collapse Under State-Imposed Economic Pressure
13/ "How can we survive under these conditions? It feels like our state-owned companies are imposing sanctions on us. This is astonishing; this will lead to Russian enterprises closing one after another.
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Tender Organizers and Suppliers Allegedly Connected in Corruption
12/ "No one will complain if they’re a month or two late, because the people organising this tender and the people supplying them are, in one way or another, connected.
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Russian Firm Relabels Chinese Railway Parts as Domestic Products
11/ "So who won? Here at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, there’s a company with 14 employees that manufactures railway track maintenance tools, spare parts, and so on. They import all of this from China [relabelled as Russian-made products].
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Russia Faces Unrealistic Equipment Supply Conditions Worth $3.4M
10/ …shipment for the money. And the total cost is 256 million rubles [$3.4 million]. In other words, we have to make 256 million worth of equipment (which is unrealistic before October). In fact, no plant can meet such conditions."
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Russian Tender Requires $60K Bid Security Plus $89K Contract Bond
8/ "To participate in the competition, we must pay 4.5 million rubles [$60,000] (the bid security—just so we can submit the documents). If we are declared the winner, we must pay another 6.7 million [$89,500] —this is to secure the execution of the contract.
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Russia’s Sole Impact Wrench Maker Deems Production Requirements Impossible
7/ "The 561 impact wrench is a very complex piece of equipment; according to the requirements, it must be manufactured by October. We are not participating because, as the only company in Russia capable of mass-producing such equipment, we consider these requirements impossible.
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Russian Rail Factories Closing Amid Industrial Decline
6/ "Previously, they were produced by two factories: Kalugatransmash and Kubanzheldormash. Kalugatransmash has already closed, and a housing complex is being built in its place. Judging by everything, we're next…
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Yakovlev Exposes State Procurement System Designed to Enrich Few
5/ Yakovlev explains how the state procurement system is designed, in his words, to create "conditions where some will get rich, while at the same time the country's economy will collapse": "Tender No. 690/OKE-TsDZS 26 for 561 impact wrenches, manufactured by our company."