Russia lost about $50 billion as a result of Western sanctions, but was able to earn it back, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with TASS
“I don’t care about them, these sanctions. So, according to various estimates, we lost about 50 billion, but we earned the same amount back,” he said.
According to Putin, these are not small losses, but sanctions have forced the country to “turn on its brains.”
“We spent quite a lot of money on the so-called import substitution and started to create such products and technologies, which we did not have before, or we just forgot them and lost them. We recreated it all,” the president said.
“We are at the first place in the world in wheat exports. We have overtaken even the United States, Canada and Australia,” he added.
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West: We don’t care about Putin
50 billion per year, lier! Offical figures.
If he didn’t care about them, why keep mentioning them?
I agree, he doesn’t care about them, and he also doesn’t care about Russians who have to live with them. The only thing he cares about is what his countrymen say about him after he has returned to the worms and that they call him Vladolf the land collector.
Impact of Sanctions on Russia’s GDP Less Severe Than Low Oil Prices – IMF
The fall in oil prices cost the country on average $48.75 billion in lost economic growth per year.
MOSCOW TIMES 6 AUGUST 2019
THATS ONLY THE OIL NOT THE SANCTIONS.
Mafia land has wanted the sanctions dropped only about five-hundred times … more or less … since 2014.
If I didn’t care about something, I would never even mention it.