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The Duran Podcast

Russian economic growth accelerates, major investment surge

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🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Russian economic growth accelerates, major investment surge

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the Russian economy.

0:06.3

What is happening with the Russian economy?

0:10.7

I think the last mini update that we did on the economy was following Putin's state of the nation address.

0:19.7

If you want to call it an update of the Russian economy, where

0:22.1

we touched upon how Putin is feeling very confident about the Russian economy, and he's

0:27.0

able to now plan things out five to ten years in advance. Anyway, what is the situation

0:35.1

today with the Russian economy?

0:46.9

Well, we've had a slew of further data for January and February, and it's interesting.

0:53.7

First of all, production in January was higher than in January of last year. There is a dip. There is always a dip in

0:56.6

January. Industrial production, economic activity in Russia is always lower in January than it was in

1:02.7

December. And it's not difficult to understand why people are out shopping, buying things in

1:08.5

December, because the holidays are coming, the new year holiday,

1:12.5

Christmas holiday. And if you're talking about the big industrial companies, they're all busy,

1:18.0

they're all busy fulfilling their orders for the end of the year. So there's usually a big

1:24.7

industrial surge in December. So there's usually also a dip in

1:30.5

January, but it was quite a shallow dip by today's, but by, you know, usual typical Russian

1:37.4

standards. And production was significantly higher in January of this year than it was in January of last year, which has already

1:46.5

remember a year of recovery.

1:49.5

But we're now getting first indications about February, and it looks like the economy is

1:57.6

accelerating again.

2:00.0

And there's been a jump in PMI numbers. They went up from,

2:06.7

you know, in manufacturing PMI, it went up from, I think, 52. I remember anything above 50,

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