What a laugh. From the official state propaganda outlet, Russia Today. Get a real source. Once again, you know your source is shit so you don't show the link in clear text. How very clever. Here is a reminder... RT News (RT.Com) – Bias and Credibility https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rt-news/ Overall, we rate RT Questionable based on promoting pro-Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories, numerous failed fact checks, and a lack of author transparency.
Putin uses UN stats quite funny - Europe implodes under own sanctions when Russia is stronger than ever and now largest economy in Europe while Germany is weaker than its shadow after USA terrorist attack on nord stream
Every economic organization on the face of the earth is stating that Russian economic numbers have no credibility. BTW -- the UN does not collect economic statistics beyond the annual SNA survey for the UN Statistics Division (UNSD); the IMF and World Bank do collect economic data. Putin does not use UN stats for his claims because UNSD stats do not include in-depth purchasing power parity data beyond the ratio calculator sourced from the World Bank & IMF. Don’t Trust Russia’s Numbers Moscow has made economic statistics a central part of its information war. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/1...ns-gdp-war-ukraine-disinformation-statistics/ The credibility of Russian economic statistics is a growing problem https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacj...russian-economic-statistics-a-growing-problem Secret Economy: What Hiding the Stats Does for Russia https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87432 With ‘Zero Visibility’ into the Russian Economy, the IMF is Parroting Putin’s Line https://insights.som.yale.edu/insig...sian-economy-the-imf-is-parroting-putins-line
Great job Putin. Poverty for all of Russia. Russia has burned through almost half of the liquid reserves in its national wealth fund as it bleeds money amid the war in Ukraine https://www.businessinsider.com/rus...quid-reserves-national-wealth-fund-war-2024-1
Say goodbye to your frozen assets Pootie Poots. Shortly the only thing Russia will have which is frozen is its people. US Senate panel backs 'big hammer' plan to seize Russian assets to help Ukraine https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-us-senate-panel-backs-172447353.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall