Putin: The current Russian economy has performed better than expected.
According to Tass, Russian President Vladimir Putin, after hearing the statements of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin about fulfilling all the social obligations of his government towards Russian citizens, emphasized: This is very important, but this fact is equally important. is that the current results are better than our expectations and predictions. This condition promises that we have fulfilled all our duties for at least one year.
In this meeting, Mikhail Mishustin announced that the unemployment level in this country has reached a historical figure between 3.1% and 3.2%.
Emphasizing that the Russian authorities have tried to “regulate the skill training system well”, Mishustin said: “When foreign companies left Russia and the threatening conditions of layoffs and unemployment arose, many skill training programs We created.”
After the start of Russian military operations in Ukraine in March 1400, which Moscow called “special military operations for the de-Nazification of Ukraine”, the United States and its allies, in addition to supplying Ukraine with unprecedented weapons, began to impose extensive economic sanctions against Russia in order to stop the advance of the Russian army. they hit However, according to Western media, sanctions have not had much impact on the Russian economy.
In February of last year, the French newspaper “Le Monde” wrote in an analytical report about the resilience of the Russian economy in the 12 months after the start of the war that the Russian economy is much stronger than what the West predicted. Le Monde has emphasized in this report that only one thing is certain, and that is that the Russian economy will collapse despite Western predictions and 9 rounds of extensive sanctions from March 2022.
According to Le Monde, in January, the statistics of the International Monetary Fund surprised everyone and disappointed Westerners; Russia’s economic recession in 2022 was limited to 2.2%, which is much lower than the Western forecasts in March 2022, which predicted 8.5%.
