(KHABAROVSK REGION, RUSSIA) – Hundreds of Chinese workers staged an unsanctioned protest on Sunday outside a Rosneft-owned construction site in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk region, over unpaid wages. The workers had been building a fuel processing unit at a state owned Rosneft refinery. The protest, unusual because foreign labourers rarely demonstrate publicly in Russia, points to mounting economic pressures on the Russian energy sector. Rosneft, once considered among Russia’s wealthiest companies, has reported significant financial losses. Ukraine’s drone campaign and international sanctions have reduced Russian energy export revenues by an estimated 40 to 50% over the past year, according to industry data.…
