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The Economist
The Economist
20 Aug 2024


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Europe | The Russian economy

The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine

Sanctions are as watertight as a sieve

RUSSIA IS PLANNING for decades of Western sanctions, a senior foreign-ministry official, Dmitry Birichevsky, said last week. The evidence suggests that might not be too much of a problem. The economy is growing smartly, at an annualised rate of 4% in the second quarter, after a whopping 5.4% the quarter before, despite one of the toughest regimes ever imposed. Trade continues to flourish. How come?

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