russia runs out of gasoline

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/russias-gas-station-has-run-out-of-gas/

For more than two decades, the Kremlin has projected Russia as the world’s indispensable energy superpower. Oil and gas revenues funded military expansion, sustained the federal budget and underpinned Moscow’s geopolitical influence.

Cheap fuel was not simply an economic advantage; it became part of the national identity and a symbol of Russian strength.

Today, that image is beginning to crack.

Across multiple Russian regions, motorists are encountering fuel shortages, purchase limits and rapidly rising prices. In some areas, premium petrol has climbed to 159 rubles per litre—more than US$8 per gallon—with prices continuing to rise as supply struggles to meet demand.

For a country that built much of its modern economy on exporting fuel, it is an extraordinary reversal.