How Putin Has Managed To Keep Russia’s Economy Afloat Despite Western Sanctions Over Ukraine War

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, countries across the world imposed sanctions on Russia to punish it. US & Europe imposed harsh economic sanctions on Russian oil and gas. However, contrary to the Western plan, Vladimir Putin & Russia were able to withstand the economic sanctions. Now the tables have turned as West faces the impact of its decision. In this episode of DeCode, Zakka Jacob explores how Russia was able to negate Western sanctions and How India & China help Russia amid its economic crisis? The real question about the numbers is how were they gathered, and are they derived from Russian sources. Russian pretty famously have stopped providing a full suite of economic numbers, and the numbers they do provide are fairly questionable in quality. Without the full suite of numbers it's difficult to sanity check their numbers.