The price rises have also unnerved the Kremlin less than three months before a presidential election that Vladimir Putin wants to use as a public display of support for his war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has been forced to issue statements denying egg shortages and put into action its emergency plans to buy tonnes of eggs from abroad and waive import taxes to suppress prices. It has also ordered its FSB security services to arrest anybody suspected of hoarding eggs.
Arrest the usual suspects…..
This makes for very messy frisking
I’m sure Fishi and Sir Kneel SP are taking careful notes…
“I’m sure Fishi and Sir Kneel SP are taking careful notes…”
Exactly. The response in the West would hardly be much different.
I wonder if having fertilized eggs in an incubator counts as hoarding? if not the shortage could be over in 16 weeks.
Andyf: I wonder if having fertilized eggs in an incubator counts as hoarding? if not the shortage could be over in 16 weeks.
Do they care about the pheasantry?
Tim,
Never mind arrest, what about the assassination attempt?
“Russian ‘egg king’ survives assassination attempt
Attack on Gennady Shiryaev feeds into growing hysteria over inflation around the staple food”
Of course, all egg producers, wholesalers, shopkeepers, etc are “hoarding”.
As is anyone with more than 3 layers scratching around their yard.
Arrest the bourgeoise capitalist swine, confiscate their eggs and distribute them to the proletariat!
Doing so will indeed solve the shortages. For now.
Ohhh! That explains the exchange of cryptic Russian signals I intercepted, priority Most Immediate: FUNEX reply SWEFX.
Bin4R the supposed egg hoarder targeted here is Gennady Shiryaev who for all I know may very well be manipulating the market.
The average girl has over 25,000 eggs. And yet the Russian birth rate is well below replacement.
FUNEX ?
O IFE10M
– The Kremlin has been forced to issue statements denying egg shortages and put into action its emergency plans to buy tonnes of eggs from abroad and waive import taxes to suppress prices.
Ah, problems coming home to roost. Sudden, dramatic disruptions to specific industries is what might be expected of an economy teetering between the pressures of harsh reality and government fantasy. That government being forced to play whackamole with problems they deny exist is no doubt apparent to the Russian people. Confidence in the thin-shelled narrative may crack, with everything seeming daily more chickenshit.
Could all be a free range CIA op, of course, but
we’dthey’d have been better off vandalising the vodka.Yeah but to be fair PJF, it wasn’t long ago that eggs were more expensive tthan Bitcoin in the UK.
That was caused by the spike in energy prices caused by governmental incompetence.
What is “hoarding”? My neighbour sometimes has 50 cubic feet of frozen food in her cellar, is that hoarding? I had eight pints of milk in the fridge a couple of days before Christmas and typically fluctuate between 1 and 5 pints.
“ Never mind arrest, what about the assassination attempt?”
Probably another set of gangsters sensing an opportunity.
BiND: Probably another set of gangsters sensing an opportunity.
Pliz not all eggs in one casket.
There’s an old Soviet era joke about a political commissar trying to explain how communism works to a peasant in a remote area:
“It’s very simple comrade – if you had two houses, and your neighbour had none, you’d give him one of your houses, wouldn’t you?”
“Certainly, comrade commissar!”
“And if you had two horses, and your neighbour had none, you’d give him one of your horses, wouldn’t you?”
“Certainly, comrade commissar!”
“And if you had two hens, and your neighbour had none, you’d give him one of your hens, wouldn’t you?”
“Certainly not, comrade commissar!”
“No?! Why not?”
“Because I have two hens.”
Tim
It’s the DT… That’s not so different – when it comes to Russia/Ukraine – to taking rt.com 100% at face value. And yes, I do read them both (it’s helpful, to understand perspective).
We’ve got no idea what Russia’s egg losses are and the only people willing to feed us numbers are proven liars with every incentive to lie (it’s a war after all).
Poultry World is a known CIA mouthpiece.
https://www.poultryworld.net/poultry/layers/perfect-storm-on-russias-egg-market-authorities-to-step-in/
Mea culpa – did the DT get it half right for once (innocent face emoji) …. 🙂
Last year in Arizona, USA – because of bird flu – eggs went from the usual $2.75/dozen to $8.00/dozen, for two months. So, not really a mark of nation-failure.
If a dozen is 12 and a gross is 20, how many is a hoard?
a gross is 12 dozen -> 144