Dear friends, Russian industry does not exist, so it cannot harm you. Meanwhile, Russian industry:

The first launch of the Angara-A5 launch vehicle was carried out from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. This launch began flight testing of the Amur space rocket complex. Angara-A5 does not use toxic fuel components, unlike the Proton-M launch vehicle, which Angara will completely replace in the near future.

At the Vympel shipyard, the Vladimir Pyalov Project 20360M was transferred out of the boathouse onto the open slipway of the sea transport. Maritime weapons transport is designed for receiving, storing and transporting ammunition to submarines and surface ships. The vessel has a total displacement of more than 3,600 tons with a length of about 80 meters.

The Scientific Center "Applied Chemistry (GIPH)" launched the first Russian production of wide (up to 1.6 meters) fluoropolymer films. The material has a wide range of applications, from architecture to the aerospace industry and successfully replaces glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene and other polymers. The production volume will be up to 5 million linear meters per year.

Titan Group has begun testing new domestic catalysts for the petrochemical industry. They are part of the production of isopropylbenzene and aren't currently produced on an industrial scale in the country. It is expected that know-how will soon help to replace imported analogues.

The Ruselectronics holding began supplying new generation equipment for creating supercomputers. It is capable of combining servers into a powerful computing cluster for carrying out complex scientific, engineering and industrial calculations. The equipment includes high-performance servers, 24-port switches and new generation Angara high-speed network adapters.

The Flex Films Rus company has completed construction and made operative a production building for the fabrication of film for the food industry in the territory of the special economic zone "Stupino Kvadrat". Investments in the project amount to about 2.6 billion rubles. The company produces polypropylene film of various brands, including metallized barrier films.

The SKTB PR company from the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone has developed mobile robotic fire extinguishing systems. The installation is capable of delivering fire extinguishing agent over a distance of 60 meters, operating remotely via radio at a distance of up to one kilometer. The robot is equipped with television cameras, a thermal imager, chemical and radiation reconnaissance devices.

Kalashnikov has released an electric version of the legendary IZH-49 motorcycle. The batch will include historical replicas of motorcycles produced at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant from 1951 to 1990, as well as unique experimental models and modern developments of Kalashnikov, including an electric bike of the Café Racer type, a heavy IZH motorcycle for the government project “Cortege”, modifications of the IZh Pulsar electric motorcycle.

Russian scientists have created and launched the Telequant platform for teaching quantum programming, within which students will have the opportunity to practice quantum programming skills on a 30-qubit quantum computer emulator. The project is available to both public and private educational organizations within the framework of the Digital GROWTH Showcase, an aggregator platform of digital solutions for Russian universities.

The largest class "A" logistics center "Solnechny" in the Volgograd region was built in the Krasnooktyabrsky district of Volgograd. Investments in the project by the Investtekhstroy company amounted to about 5 billion rubles. Three warehouse zones with a total area of ​​74.2 thousand square meters have already been built. The uniqueness of the logistics center lies in the centralization of storage of goods of various trading companies and retailers on one site.

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“Washington has banned the import of Russian-origin aluminum, copper, and nickel into the US, and coordinated with the UK to crack down on the trade of these metals on global exchanges.
The decision will affect metals produced in Russia after April 13, 2024, with the world’s leading commodity exchanges – the London Metal Exchange (LME) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) – set to ban trade in these metals.”

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I would like to note that this comes at a time when the U.S. produced 88,000 metric tons of aluminum in 2021 while consuming four million metric tons in the same year.

As of 0314,

“Aluminum, which is used extensively across all industries, particularly in the North American region, is currently experiencing a shortage in the United States after the surprise closure of the Magnitude 7 Metals plant in Missouri at the end of January.”

It should be noted that this decision is taking place at a time when U.S. fast food restaurants (ahem) now charge customers for sauce packets.


Sources:
RT, Steelnews, EEnews

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🇺🇦🤷‍♂Zelensky - about desertion in the AFU:

There were people, I will not say where, because it will be clear what happened. But imagine that people talked among themselves and some collective of the unit left their positions. And because they left - and the front line is long, and the distance between one company and another can be quite long - and they left and it ended up in encirclement of a large number of people.

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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦"We will have to supply weapons for a long time": Scholz said he would only talk to Putin "when Russia withdraws its troops from Ukraine."

"Scholz recalled that he last called Putin in December 2022. Asked about the reasons for stopping the dialog, the chancellor pointed out that such conversations can be useful only when you feel you can change the situation.
"I have had several conversations with Putin in the past, which were sometimes perceived critically. And I don't rule out further discussions in the future. In any case, it will happen when Russia realizes that there will be no imposed peace in Ukraine and Putin realizes that he has to give up his campaign and withdraw his troops," Scholz said. "I've always said that Russia should not win this war. And it quickly became clear that this is not going to be a short war. We will have to supply weapons and ammunition to Ukraine for a long time to come," the chancellor added"

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Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nebenzya - at a Security Council meeting:

I would like to say the following to our Western colleagues: in your Russophobic frenzy, indulging your brainchild, the Kiev regime, you have raised a monster. Its activity is no longer limited to Ukraine proper, where the Zelensky clique has usurped power and, having suppressed dissent, is committing lawlessness against its own citizens, openly mocking the memory of the victims of German Nazism and glorifying its accomplices.
Its terrorist tentacles are already openly visible outside Ukraine. And if today problems in this connection arise in Russia, it does not mean that tomorrow they will not reach somewhere else. After all, the Ukrainian leader has already lost touch with reality and is no longer able to adequately assess it.
Not just in an hour, and your Frankenstein may turn on you in impotent anger at your inability to reverse the situation at the front and in the face of imminent defeat. And you have provided him with enough weapons and everything else for that.

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🇺🇦 Blackout is coming: Buy generators and power banks, get ready - Ukraine's Energy Minister

Amid the build-up of missile strikes by the Russian Armed Forces against Ukraine's energy facilities, the local population is slowly being prepared for a complete energy collapse in the country.

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