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Russia has begun the evacuation of embassy staff and their families from Venezuela, reports the Associated Press.

Against this background, a statement from Donald Trump is expected: he will speak alongside the Secretary of Defense today at 01:30 Moscow time. The topic is the situation around Venezuela.

There are no official reports yet on a possible military scenario from the USA.

🇷🇺 Russia accuses the US of using cryptocurrency to erase $35 trillion in debt.

Putin's advisor, Kobyakov, claims Washington will convert debt into stablecoins, devaluing them and restarting the financial system. $BNB $ETH

Putin launched the work on new infrastructure projects in the regions of the Far East via video link.

Among the launched projects:

🔵The Pacific Railway, stretching 531 kilometers between the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and the Khabarovsk Territory;
🔵Reconstructed section of the Khabarovsk – Vladivostok federal highway A-370 'Ussuri';

"Everyone is losing": leaders of the Russian market are recording huge sales declines

And again about the car market – according to the results of August, it once again demonstrated an impressive drop. None of the leaders managed to avoid a significant decline.

Thus, Lada sold 211,3 thousand cars in 8 months, and the decline compared to last year was almost 25%. At the same time, the Russian manufacturer is gradually continuing to lose its market share, and now Lada has 27,3% of all new car sales in Russia. Specifically, in August, sales continued to plummet (-28.4%), and the market share decreased by 3.4% year-on-year, totaling 22.6%.

▪️The rumble of the cosmodrome is not heard:
The CEO of RKK 'Energy' announced the company's collapse. In a letter to employees on the 79th anniversary of the enterprise, Igor Maltsev predicted its closure. All project deadlines have been missed, the corporation has multimillion debts, and 'the groundwork laid by Sergey Pavlovich Korolev and developed by our chief designers — Mishin, Glushko, Semenov — has been consumed to date.'

Russian banks will operate under enhanced financial monitoring requirements starting in 2025. As a result, transactions for selling cryptocurrency for rubles through exchanges, P2P platforms, and exchanges are sometimes assessed by banks as high-risk and blocked.
AWX specialists noted that blockages usually occur based on one of two laws: No. 161-FZ 'On the National Payment System' and No. 115-FZ 'On Counteracting the Legalization of Income,' which define the rules under which payment organizations are required to identify and stop suspicious operations.

At the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Vladimir Putin once again criticized the role of the dollar as a 'weapon' in the hands of the USA and called for a faster abandonment of dollar dominance. The focus is on the new international payment mechanism BRICS Pay, based on blockchain and CBDC, designed to bypass SWIFT and reduce dependence on the dollar.

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1. According to the SNV-3 agreement between Russia and the USA, the countries are obliged to keep strategic bombers with nuclear weapons in the open - to mutually monitor them from satellites. The agreement is valid until 2026 - Russia suspended its participation in 2023 but did not withdraw. The USA is also complying with it - we all saw photos of B2s transferred by Trump to Diego Garcia base in April. Also in the open - it turns out that according to the agreement, such aircraft can only be moved into hangars for short-term repairs.