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Except other exports, Russia is #1 in the world in wheat export, and #1 in the world in fertilisers export This is obvious fake news. Except some Ukrainian blogs, you will not find it nowhere in official sources. Banking system works normally without any problems, CB never have offered or talked about such measures.

There is a shift from this To this What happend?

Yeah, they should be taking their car. Or just order their driver. Some people in the forum not realise that sometimes there is a life situation when you have to move with all family and all that you have in possession is an old Honda Wave. The blanket was a mistake, but who from us never made some dangerous mistakes?

Belongings needed to be moved by 10 people? They rented a mansion?

I thought that google is available for all AN members. Okay, I can do that for you. Beside China, top 2 other Brics members are: 1. India with gdp of 3.3T. Prime Minister of India has attended the meeting. 2 Brazil with gdp of 2T. Prime Minister of Brazil has attended the meeting. The heads or first deputies of 28 states with total GDP more that NATO countries has visited isolated Putin.

I was replying to the message about isolation. Isolated Putin has been visited in his country by the majority of economic power.

Those who is feasting do not realize yet that they are not the owners of the table anymore. The BRICS economies also account for an estimated 37.3% of global gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity. In 2023, NATO member countries accounted for 30.7% of the world's GDP

Yeah, fully isolated now.

The difference from Banana Republics is that Russia had a lot of reserves, surplus budget and almost no debt. With such resources CB can set any currency level that is comfortable to them. But instead of stable level they preferred constant depreciation of national currency. The reason of it is unknown to me. Now situation is other. CB trying their best to stop the depreciation to be uncontrolled. But their recourses are limited and supply of freely printed roubles is too big.

I haven’t said that. The economy held pretty well against sanctions and colossal war spendings, but now freshly printed money started to leak to financial system, causing inflation and depreciation of rouble. The impulse is over and there is one way now, down. However strength of economy and population is pretty strong (especially if keep in mind inability to publicly express own opinion) and even with decline there will enough power to continue the war for years.

You just not included collapse of the rouble in 2014. If include it and make it 12 years, 6 years and 3 years (to fully include war times) then the depreciation will look more smooth

Of cause war affects the economy. Can’t be otherwise when 30% of the budget being spent on “defence”. But the steady decline of rouble was always the policy of Russian CB. You can check the rates before the war, and the rouble was declining with the similar speed. I don’t know why it was chosen as the policy, my guess is that it helps GDP growth and filing up the budget, and from another side big money will not hold funds in roubles anyway due to the lacking of capital protection rights in Russia.

It takes about 30 seconds to check it. But better to “read”, right? Rouble lost 8% against the USD for the least year. https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=RUB

Young under 30s still here, they just became invisible under the flock of low-quality tourists. Actually it shows that economy doing well if low-class people are able to afford holiday here. For me I also don’t like the level of newcomers. Something like this was in 2013, and after the collapse of rouble in the 2014 all those low-class gone with only pleasant russian people left. I’m pretty sure that current situation will not stay long and the meltdown of economy will send these people back with mostly educated well-mannered Russians left.

Okay, I will rewrite it. How did you know that their wine was cheap?

I will not persuade you that the majority of economy is not war-related, and people can legally earn significant money outside war, just want to ask How did you knew that their wine was cheap?

That’s why you see so many Russians in tourist places nowadays. They out of food there and flying to Thailand in hope to get something to eat.

6 months passed from this strong statement. Crimea is lost, bridge is destroyed. All because of gamechangers of June, F16’s. Or not 🤔

So in one case opinion of people matters, in another is not. Double standards? Yes.

^^ another one

The people of Crimea don’t want to be associated with Ukraine. To what country in your opinion Crimea should belong?

It was mentioned in the first page in this topic. However many still going with “Putin”, “frontline”, etc. Maybe after reading word “Russian” in the title some fog covers their eyes.

My guess is that there will be few, because usually farangs are learning mathematics in school

Great work, you have made correction by yourself. From this it turned to this And became clear that oil is not the only resource world is buying from Russia.

Number 1 in the world in wheat export https://www.tradeimex.in/blogs/top-10-wheat-exporters-in-2023#:~:text=The largest wheat exporter in,and Canada (%248.84 billion).&text=With approximately 51 million metric,leading wheat exporter in 2023. Number 1 in the world in nuclear reactors export https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/ALL/year/2021/tradeflow/Exports/partner/WLD/product/840110#:~:text=In 2021%2C Top exporters of,100.61K %2C 2%2C769 Kg). Number 1 in the world in fertilizers export https://www.statista.com/statistics/1278057/export-value-fertilizers-worldwide-by-country/