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Russia withstands Western sanctions as war economy proves profitable โ€ข FRANCE 24 English

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Russia withstands Western sanctions as war economy proves profitable โ€ข FRANCE 24 English



President Vladimir Putin has been re-elected to a fifth term in office after a vote in which he faced no real opposition. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has become the most sanctioned country in the world. But the Russian economy has proven surprisingly resilient, with defence spending priming industrial production and the country’s oil and gas industry finding ways around Western sanctions and price caps. We take a closer look.

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31 thoughts on “Russia withstands Western sanctions as war economy proves profitable โ€ข FRANCE 24 English”

  1. West thought that they can convince the whole world to their interests not knowing the rest of the world are not buying their propaganda anymore

  2. Gas cars in developed countries will be retired for new electric vehicles by 2030 as the price of electric per mile becomes lower than gas engines mpg. When that happens, what will become of our beloved gas station at the top of the world when there's no one left to buy their dirty planet killing oil & gas? After 2030 there will be no Russian pension checks after all the gas markets collapse to all time record lows as 1-by-1 they're replaced with cheaper, cleaner, planet friendly, electric cars, solar, wind, & nuclear energy.

  3. Useless sanctions, how can you sanction a big country like Russia on trade and import.

    Now most of the western products have lost its market and at the same time the sanctions are rather equipping the Russians to start producing thier own goods. sad

  4. Hey after Ukraine hit Russian oil refineries watch pump prices soar to stupid amounts in the west . Ukraine shot themselves in the foot as this harms the west not Russia , Russia just raise the prices and sanctions have to be removed due to demand .

  5. Its proved that Westerners countries failed about Russia โ€ฆ there underestimated Russia is a biggest failure ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

  6. Russia doesn't use US dollar on any financial transactions, why comparison and what is the obsession of what Russians do

  7. so, after 13 packages of EU sanctions (I'm sure package 14 will be the one that actually works), the results are in:
    inward investment in Russia is up, Russian economy is growing faster than any G7 country, Russia has expanded trade with the rest of the world, China and Russia are now much closer allies than before.
    oh, and Russia is winning the war with Ukraine. Just how bright are our Western leaders?

  8. "withstands".. Your pathetic sanctions were blown away. Russia economy is seeing unprecedented growth forecast.

  9. As predicted De-coupling of staganated European economy is the best thing that happened to Russia. Now russian eccomy is coupling with Indian and Chinese eccomies which have very high growth potential. Thanks to West it will become the 4th largest economy soon even without war.

  10. NATO is asleep at the wheels.
    They are still stuck in the pre 2000 era.
    The rise of China and the BRICS means that there is an alternative economic world to NATO.
    Russia can live well outside the NATO world.
    Chinese manufacturers and exporters are happy that the NATO companies had left and hand over Russia on a platter to them.
    USA and China is decouplingโ€ฆ..and that hands China on a platter to its own companies and maybe the European companies.
    Yummy.

  11. You are more and more alone in believing official Russian statistics. Obviously they are going to pretend that everything is fine. But the facade is starting to crack.

  12. IF CHINA SUPPORTS YOU, ….

    "The worse Russia's relations are with the West, the closer Russia will want to be to China.
    If China supports you, no one can say you're isolated," said Vasily Kashin, a China expert at the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) think thank. – Reuters

  13. Russias economy hasn't changed much in the last 10 years, there was a 4 year high shortly before the coup in Ukraine, I guess thats why the coup happened in the first place. Everyone and their mother afraid of Russia. And then basically slow and steady rise since the sanctions are in place.

  14. well that's just sunshine and lollipops in Russia, in fact the government pours in tens of billions of dollars in its war time economy, the money comes after selling lots of oil at discount price to China and India …

  15. With Russia pivoting to Eastern markets, that means even after the war ends, the companies that left Russia won't be allowed back.

  16. Increasing military spending means decreasing fundings to other sectors like health, education, pension, etc. Russia is also using foreign currency reserves to buy their Rubles to stabilize it but how long can they keep that up? Even India wouldnโ€™t use Ruble to buy oil from Russia.

  17. Well, yeah. When countries are helping Russia evade sanctions they're not going to work very well.

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