{"id":233892,"date":"2026-04-21T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-united24-media\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:55:07","slug":"iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-united24-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-united24-media\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhones Pile Up\u00a0in\u00a0Russia as\u00a0Prices Fall and Demand Fades \u2014 UNITED24 Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-18111\">iPhones Pile Up\u00a0in\u00a0Russia as\u00a0Prices Fall and Demand Fades \u2014 UNITED24 Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-18111\">https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-18111<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 09:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"united24media.com\">united24media.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia is\u00a0facing a\u00a0growing surplus of\u00a0unsold Apple and Samsung smartphones, as\u00a0weakening consumer demand forces retailers to\u00a0cut prices and rethink their sales strategies, market participants told Russian media outlet Izvestia on\u00a0April\u00a021.<\/p>\n<p>We bring you stories from the ground. Your support keeps our team in the field.<\/p>\n<p>DONATE NOW<\/p>\n<p>Large electronics chains significantly increased their inventory purchases toward the end of\u00a02025, anticipating stronger demand. Instead, they are now struggling to\u00a0move stock, particularly at\u00a0higher price points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy\u00a0late 2025, major retailers had stocked up\u00a0so\u00a0heavily on\u00a0devices that they now can\u2019t sell them\u2014at least not at\u00a0premium prices,\u201d said Eldar Murtazin, a\u00a0leading analyst at\u00a0Mobile Research Group.<\/p>\n<p>                    The spokesman for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Dmitriy Peskov, using an\u00a0iPhone 17\u00a0Pro. (Photo: open source)<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0a\u00a0result, prices have started to\u00a0decline across the market. According to\u00a0Russian retailer M.Video, the iPhone 17\u00a0has dropped by\u00a025\u00a0to\u00a030\u00a0percent since the beginning of\u00a0the year, while older models have seen reductions of\u00a015\u00a0to\u00a020\u00a0percent.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung devices have also been discounted, with the base Galaxy S26 model down by\u00a0around 5\u00a0percent, the S26+ series falling by\u00a05\u00a0to\u00a010\u00a0percent, and the S26 Ultra models declining by\u00a0up\u00a0to\u00a015\u00a0percent.<\/p>\n<p>Other industry estimates suggest average price reductions for Apple and Samsung devices are currently in\u00a0the range of\u00a08\u00a0to\u00a010\u00a0percent. Analysts say retailers misjudged consumer demand and are now offering discounts to\u00a0offload excess inventory.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apple products normalising genocide &#8211; it\u2019s call being a sponsor of war &#8211; using opaque and documented parallel supply chains &#8211; but make no mistake, they are all thick as thieves.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the iPhone 17 have plummeted to 61,000 rubles. At the beginning of the year, the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/kE9hGVIe5F<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beefeater (@Beefeater_Fella) April 16, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Demand has also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-18111\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhones Pile Up\u00a0in\u00a0Russia as\u00a0Prices Fall and Demand Fades \u2014 UNITED24 Media https:\/\/united24media.com\/latest-news\/iphones-pile-up-in-russia-as-prices-fall-and-demand-fades-18111 Publish Date: 2026-04-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.united24media.com\/og\/2\/05\/75b8e7320a57a49dc9962411c69d2052.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-233892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233894,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233892\/revisions\/233894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}