For example, the auto sector's struggles
(down 97%) are masked by ‘hidden unemployment’
where workers were not laid off—
but instead placed on indefinite furlough
Take ANY Russian government economic figures with a MINE of salt, their primary goal here is to convince the West that sanctions on the Kremlin are doing more damage to us than they are to them (with the help of Putin's duplicitous agents in the West). Over the medium to long-term, the Russians are the ones that are going to suffer, BIG time ...
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