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Nick Trickett sifts though the mixed signals in Russia’s economic data to assess how far the county could cope with prolonged mobilisation
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Nick Trickett looks at how sanctions and sky high military spending are denting the value of the ruble
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Nicholas Trickett takes stock of how much damage ‘partial' mobilisation has already dented Russia’s wartime economy. How much more workforce depletion can the country take?
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Nick Trickett takes stock of some surprisingly upbeat forecasts for the Russian economy
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Nick Trickett on the transformation of the Russian economy in 2022
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Nick Trickett examines how far Russia’s government is capable of a an economic ‘partial mobilization'
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Nick Trickett looks at how the metallurgy sector is being bent out of shape by harsh new economic realities imposed by 6 months of war
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Nick Trickett sees sanctions on Russian oil as a previously unthinkable decision to diminish Russia' role as a prime mover on oil markets
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Nick Trickett on how the economic struggles for Putin’s regime in wartime are underscoring the drawbacks of Russia’s approach to central planning
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Nick Trickett sees Russia’s oil dependency as an economic straitjacket, especially as countries start to look elsewhere for energy amid the Ukraine conflict
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Nick Trickett is wary of seeing Russia’s swelling reserves of foreign currency as a sign of underlying economic strength. In fact, he writes, the woes of stagnant growth and inflation are starting to bite.
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Nick Trickett takes issue with the Russian Central Bank’s focus on suppressing inflation. Deflation, he fears, is the next spectre to watch for — and there is no sign of a plan
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Nick Trickett questions why the Russian government is thinking about building new Siberian cities, when there is still plenty of work to do in developing the existing ones
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Nick Trickett on why Russia won’t benefit from climate change, but not for the reasons you might think
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Nick Trickett believes Russia’s government is fighting a losing battle against inflation
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Nick Trickett warns that price controls are not the smartest way to mitigate Russia’s problems with inflation
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Nicholas Trickett into the prospects for a post-Covid economic recovery in Russia
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Nicholas Trickett looks at how Russian oil production is struggling in a time of Covid-19’s low prices, OPEC+ production cuts, and US shale
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Nicholas Trickett on how COVID-19 has been rewriting economic orthodoxy across the globe, but Russia’s Austrian School economists have yet to get the memo
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Nick Trickett wonders how far the Russian state should go to support its struggling fossil fuels companies
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Nick Trickett on the political and economic pressures fuelling Rosneft’s latest round of Middle Eastern dealmaking
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Russia and Saudi Arabia are rolling a boulder up a hill only to see it tumble back down as their relative market power declines
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Russian gas supplies to China are a talking point again in light of US-China trade tensions and commodity price fluctuations. Two prospective pipelines are being touted, for very different reasons
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As Russian oil companies plan further cooperation across the Middle East, the political and financial costs of engagement will likely increase.