https://archive.ph/91597

New US sanctions are unlikely to change the fact that Russia will grow faster this year than the United States, Germany, France or Britain - Washington Post

• Western financial and trade restrictions did not lead Russia to economic collapse, “let alone convince the Kremlin to abandon its military plans.”
• The reason is the non-participation of the largest Asian economies in the sanctions war against the Russian Federation.
• “This is the first geopolitical crisis that does not involve all the major Asian economies. The West no longer has decisive economic power. India and China are enough to keep Russia afloat,” sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder of Cornell University told WP.
• The newspaper reminds that all the US calculations about the fall of the Russian economy did not come true.
• “Russia rebounded last year, growing faster than the United States,” the article says. Russia's economic growth rate is expected to be 2.6% a year this year, "significantly higher than previous forecasts and compared with 2.1% in the United States."
• “He has enough money to support the economy and support the army. And this can last for a long time,” said economist E. Rybakova, vice-president for foreign policy at the Kyiv School of Economics.