Oil and vodka: Russia’s resilient economy
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western businesses pulled out and governments imposed punishing sanctions. But Russia’s economy is proving surprisingly resilient. In the instalment of our French election series, we travel to Provence to better understand the campaign of the hard-right candidate Eric Zemmour, who has tapped into and stoked anti-Muslim sentiment. And why Lebanon’s plastic surgeons are thriving amid an economic mess.
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| 1:13.5 | Eric Zimaud, a far-right presidential candidate, has relentlessly stoked anti-Muslim sentiment |
| 1:18.7 | in France. We pay a visit, finding a constituency afraid the society is changing too much, |
| 1:25.1 | and a Muslim community afraid that nothing is changing at all. |
| 1:30.3 | And making good money in Lebanon is just about impossible these days after a series of economic crises. |
| 1:36.3 | But one profession is bringing in plenty of customers, from within the country and abroad. But first... |
| 1:55.0 | The West has launched a full-scale economic assault on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2:05.2 | America banned the sale of a wide range of goods, big companies pulled out by the dozen, |
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