@limping
Yeah, foreign economists look at the numbers and those often look good — a lot of effort gets invested in making them look good. Under normal circumstances these numbers would indeed reflect the state of economy, so I can't blame them. Still, I don't get why they might think that economy that is deeply integrated into global one — and Russian economy is pretty far from being autonomous, depending both on import and export, might come unaffected.
@randahl
@limping
But not sanctions only a lot of challenged have accumulated over time — some predate this round of war, take this state-sponsored mortgage that was implemented to support properky developers during COVID lockdowns. Budged spending on compensating mortgage rates much lower than the base rate set by the Central Band of Russia will only grow over time — this is going to become a huge problem in 2025 already and is bound to get even worse with time.
@randahl
