@samhainnight @kevinrothrock
At least this enables them to report low unemployment rate. Coupled with generous resources funneled into the military-industrial complex, which would be considered money sent down the drain in any healthy economy, but which enables them to report GDP growth — it confuses economists who only look at the numbers.
Nabiullina of course knows that these numbers don't mean shit in the type of economy she's dealing with and her responsibility is tackling the inflation.