When Schaeffler confirmed in March 2022 that it would suspend FAG-branded bearing deliveries to Russian industrial customers, the concern at Uralmash in Yekaterinburg was not
How Defense Spending Reshapes Civilian Industry: A View from the Shop Floor
Introduction: The Dual-Use Dilemma in Heavy Industry When a foundry in the Urals stops casting turbine housings for a hydroelectric plant and starts pouring armored
How Defense Spending Affects Civilian Industrial Capacity: A View from the Shop Floor
Defense spending isn’t just a budget line—it’s a physical claim on steel, machine tools, skilled hands, and logistics capacity. When the state ramps up military
Why Industrial Product Naming Conventions Became a Compliance Bottleneck Under Import Substitution
In March 2023, a mid-sized agricultural machinery assembler in Rostov Oblast submitted a new tractor variant for inclusion in the Unified Register of Russian Industrial
Why Industrial Policy Is Making a Global Comeback
The global return of industrial policy is not a theoretical debate. It is a material shift in how states allocate capital, structure supply chains, and
The Problem With Measuring Economic Health Only Through GDP
Walk through a Russian factory floor today and you’ll feel it before you can measure it. The vibration of a machine that’s been patched together
Why GDP Alone Is a Dangerous Compass for Russia’s Industrial Strategy
The Number That Tells You Almost Nothing Gross Domestic Product—GDP—is the headline metric of economic health. It aggregates the market value of all final goods