The aggressor-controlled “Crimean press” decided to “add optimism” to the issues of “economic development” by reporting on the “conference” “Crimean export: innovations and support” held in occupied Simferopol on September 11.
The illegal “deputy minister of industry and trade” Irina Frolova and “minister of finance” Irina Kiviko are quoted regarding the fact that allegedly “Crimean entrepreneurs have increased their export volumes by an average of 50% this year compared to last year”, and that allegedly “more than 60% of Crimean exports are products of the engineering industry”.
However, why then did the occupiers declare agricultural structures such as “Selkhozpredpriyatie Niva”, “Entsian”, “Krymskaya Roza”, “Alushta Essential Oil State Farm-Plant” and “Agrofirma Turgenevskaya” as “exporters of the year” would be unclear at first glance, but the answer is quite simple: with the active assistance of the aggressor’s special services, these figures became the “faces” of the occupation “economy” at several “international exhibitions”, with a “modestly hushed up” practical result.
However, even the figures voiced by the occupiers tell a different story: it was stated that the volume of income from the so-called export “amounted to almost 11 million dollars”.
At the same time, a year ago, the central propaganda of the aggressor stated that allegedly in 2024 “exports grew”, but no “statistics” for the past year were made public at all; there was only a statement that “small and medium-sized enterprises” of the occupiers allegedly “concluded 19 export contracts for a total of 9.9 million dollars in 2023”, and that in 2024 their number allegedly “became more”.
In the pompous collection of “Krymstat” “Crimean Spring” published a summer ago, dedicated to the decade of occupation, in the column “export” for 2023, both according to the “plan” and “actually”, there were dashes.
And in August 2024, the same Irina Kiviko announced an alleged “growth in exports” from the occupied peninsula “in general” from allegedly 30 million dollars in 2022 to 37 million in 2023. Despite the fact that both 37 and 11 million dollars in relation to even the aggressor-controlled and degrading “Crimean economy” are, to put it mildly, paltry figures, it is obvious that the “50% growth” is a fake in principle. In order to “somehow explain” this, the collaborators claim that “certain “shipments are made through trading houses” which are registered in Russian regions proper, but for some reason they do not provide any “facts” about these “powerful hubs”.
Understanding that such a large-scale lie can only be told to the population, and even then in the absence of any possibility of public criticism, and that the Moscow overseers have real figures on hand, the collaborators make a noteworthy “reservation” that they will now pay “special attention to the development of a new direction – the export of products of the creative industries: culture, art, fashion, cinema”.
There is no doubt that the Kremlin will clearly “like” the idea of ”exporting” propaganda, one can guess what kind of film the collaborators will try to show in third countries,but the Russian special services will have to pay exclusively for such provocations – this cannot have anything to do with economic processes.
