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Re:The BRICS Has Overtaken the G7 in Global GDP by pphysch on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:19PM (#35346396)
And they have, particularly when overwhelming Western sanctions failed to shock the Russian economy and society to collapse.

Remember when Biden triumphantly announced that the ruble was reduced to "rubble"? That was the objective, and it failed catastrophically.

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Re:The BRICS Has Overtaken the G7 in Global GDP by Tagbert on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:33PM (#35346585)
So, how is that Russian economy doing now? From sources not controlled by the Kremlin?
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Re:The BRICS Has Overtaken the G7 in Global GDP by somenameforme on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:51PM (#35346848)
Russia expected (September 2022) [1]:

2022: -2.9% decline

2023: hoping for slight growth, possibility of slight decline

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IMF observed/predicts (January 2023) [2]:

2022: -2.2% decline

2023: slight growth

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[1] - https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-economy-contr...

[2] - https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/RUS

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Re:The BRICS Has Overtaken the G7 in Global GDP by cpursley on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:44PM (#35348357)
Try YouTube. Plenty of Westerners there posting videos of daily life.
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