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Foreign companies owe Russian businesses record 967B rubles: Rosstat
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Rosstat data cited by The Moscow Times shows debts owed by companies in supposedly friendly countries to Russian businesses jumped over 40% to a record 967 billion rubles as of June 2026. Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Uzbekistan account for the bulk of the arrears, with businesses blaming U.S. secondary sanctions enforcement for choking cross-border payment channels.
Industry figures quoted describe convoluted multi-hop payment routes, extended deferral windows granted to avoid losing customers to Chinese and Turkish competitors, and tightening credit controls among Russian exporters. Reciprocal Russian debts to the same partners also grew 25% to roughly 506 billion rubles, suggesting the payment freeze runs in both directions.
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When your best friends owe you money and you owe them money too, that's not friendship, that's just a mess nobody wants to untangle first. Sanctions were supposed to make trade with Russia harder, and by the sound of these numbers, they're doing exactly that, one unpaid invoice at a time. The men quoted here talk about 'sustainable frameworks' the way a fellow talks about his credit score after the bank calls twice a week.
