In the meantime, a marked slowdown in the Russian economy has surprised some economists. "The sharp slowdown in Russian gross domestic product growth from 4.5% year-on-year in the fourth quarter ...

A few folks have asked our take on why Putin won’t agree to a ceasefire. My answer? For the same reason he’s building bases near Finland: Russia’s economy collapses if defense spending slows down. Why ...

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire confidently declared, “We will bring down the Russian economy,” while similar predictions came from officials throughout the West. Yet years later ...

Protracted war has greatly degraded the health of the Russian economy and destroyed much of Russia's conventional military. Now is the time to compel Russia to make concessions so Russia can evade ...

President Barack Obama, after taking office in early 2009, set in motion the merging of U.S. business interests with the Russian economy through the famous “reset” in relations between the two powers.

Such a move would lead to more Russian energy sales, helping stabilize the economy. The daily chart shows that the ... by a vertical line and a rectangle. Therefore, there is a likelihood that ...

Part I of the paper covers the initial impacts of the sanctions regime on the Russian economy. Next, Part II runs through the lessons Russia learned from the sanctions imposed in 2014, and how these ...

The lower revenues, a result in part of President Trump’s trade war, could prove more damaging to the Russian economy than the penalties the United States and its allies have already imposed.

On February 7, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin reported to Putin that the Russian economy grew by 4.1 percent in 2024. This growth was attributed to a 4.6 percent increase in industrial ...