All right, Alexander, let's do a video on the Russian economy.

4.1% growth.

Shocked everybody, I believe.

Even the Kremlin, it seems.

What is behind this growth?

Should the Russians be thanking the sanctions,

the collective West sanctions for all of this economic growth?

I'm going to go.

I'm going to anticipate and say that that is exactly what they should thank.

Because what we've now had is a meeting between Putin and the Russian Prime Minister

Muschustin, in which they went through all of the figures.

And you're absolutely correct. They have been astonished themselves by the pace of economic

expansion in Russia. Now, the growth figures for 2023 had up to now being put at 3.6% GDP growth.

They've been revised upwards.

So we now have a new figure for 2023 growth, which is 4.1% growth in GDP.

The figure, the anticipated, the expected GDP growth number for 2024 was 3.9%. It's now

been revised upwards to also 4.1% GDP growth. But it's going to be revised again, and it almost certainly is going

to be revised upwards. So we're likely to see GDP growth in Russia in 2024 at around 4.5, 4.6,

4.7 percent. Very, very rapid. Not that less than China, by the way. And what was most

interesting was that Ms. Houston went through and discussed with Putin where the biggest growth

drivers are coming from.

And this is where you start to get this enormous divergence between the Western narrative

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