Russia’s Oil Capital Is Now Queuing for Clean Water

1 August 2026

This week on INSIDE RUSSIA, Konstantin Samoilov delivers a brutal analysis of a systemic collapse hidden behind the Kremlin’s war economy. How is it possible that Russia’s wealthiest oil regions are struggling to provide basic municipal utilities? The answer lies in the massive, unsustainable diversion of resources away from civil infrastructure and into the military-industrial complex.

We break down the 12 most critical economic developments of the week (July 21–31, 2026), moving beyond the headlines to reveal the lived reality of ordinary Russians.

In this episode, we investigate:

The Title Story: Why the residents of Russia’s resource-rich region are facing surreal utility crises, water outage in Tyumen.

The Macro Nightmare: The Central Bank’s desperate monetary policy stand-off and why 20% interest rates are failing to contain wage-push inflation while crushing civil businesses.

The Supply Chain Squeeze: How Chinese cross-border payment bottlenecks and severe domestic rail freight backlogs are choking ordinary manufacturing.

The Lived Economy: Surging auto loan distress, consumer inflation on basic food staples, and the real cost of defense-driven labor poaching.

This is not Kremlin press-release journalism. This is an evidence-based diagnosis of structural stagflation, municipal decay, and an economy burning through its future to fund the present.

Watch now to understand the real cost of Russia’s war economy.

I’m Konstantin Samoilov, a Russian in exile and creator of Inside Russia community. I lived inside this system, and now I analyze it from the outside. I talk to people inside the country every day, follow the numbers and the mood, study Russia under microscope and share my findings with the world. No hype — just facts. If you want serious, brutal, and honest anti-propaganda analysis of how Russia really works, hit Subscribe.
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