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This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Badger. The Russian economy, much in the news,

because of sanctions, because of the troubles in Ukraine and because the general assumption that

the sanctions visited upon Russia many years ago, beginning with the annexation of Crimea,

those sanctions tightened and enforced would oblige Russia to change its course. But I learned

from Akaterina Zalotava for geopolitical futures writing from Moscow that the Russian economy

outperformed in 2022. And the reasons for it are revelatory of how sanctions work,

how countries that live with sanctions learn to deal with them and what about the future.

Akaterina, a very good evening to you. The price of energy is determined for the Russian economy.

What about 2022 surprised the world as the economy survived those severe sanctions? Why?

How did they do it? Good evening to you.

Good evening and I will start my discussion with a little bit historical overview.

First of all, we should remember that Russia has survived several crises. And of course,

Russia has got some experience from this. The major three points that the Russian government

understand that in order to be afloat, the economy should have very low depth or in depth,

very high or well, at least to have very good reserves, as money, as currency, as gold, for example,

and of course, the inflation. Inflation shouldn't be very high. So keeping these three rules,

Russian economy survived the previous year. First of all, despite of the sanctions and despite all

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