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How resilient is Russia's economy with Putin as President?

Hello, I'm Leanna Byrne and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report and we're coming to you

live from the BBC World Service.

Listen, it's no surprise that Vladimir Putin was re-elected as Russia's president since.

There was no real opposition.

Now President Putin says, who boosts the military and prioritized the war in Ukraine. So did he say

anything about the economy? Let's ask Vitali Shevchenko, Russia editor at BBC

monitoring. Hello.

Good morning.

Vladimir Putin's economic policies, do they in any way factor into his re-election strategy?

His re-election strategy, it was so focused on the war, or this special military operation as he

insists on calling it, that the economy wasn't really a huge part of it.

Having said that in his speeches leading up to the election,

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