Whether or not I see a difference in the methods used by Rosstat to calculate the Russian poverty level is irrelevant to the fact that Rosstat itself was reporting (according to its latest method of...
With regard to your first misquote, you omitted the words "for their poorer workers" in my original comment. I did not claim that these were provided to everyone. Many other countries, however, also...
This time I can begin my reply with the words you have used several times - Again a lot of lines...
Unlike me, however, you continue not to provide links so that your assertions can be checked.
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As usual, claims without source.
World Bank data (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS?locations=RU-UA-EU&start=1990%0D) state that since 2000, the unemployment rate in Russia has...
I have addressed the issue of 20% of the world's countries supporting sanctions in an earlier posting and won't repeat my comments here.
TASS, on 23 June, 2022, headlined a report on the Russian...
BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world's leading emerging market economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Despite the membership of both Russia and China, the BRICS...
The World Economic Forum cites International Energy Agency data as saying, “Collectively, European nations take about two-thirds of Russia’s oil exports while a fifth go to China which is the biggest...
I have not disputed in any of my postings that Russia has replaced Saudi Arabia as PR China's main oil supplier, but China has been Russia's biggest market for crude oil since 2016, so what was the...
Wrong on both counts.
I forgot to add:
(1) that the buying and selling physical oil is not an option for most investors, but liquid markets that track oil prices can be found via futures,...
Moses,
Thank you for pointing out something I had not sufficiently checked in my earlier response.
You prompted me to look further into the discount for Indian buyers of Russian oil, and this...
"Within past year ruble became 30% stronger against USD, 50% stronger against Japanese yen, 40% stronger against euro and pound."
To put this in some perspective, consider the figures in reverse....
As usual, you give no link to the item you posted, so it is difficult to respond to something that is presented without context – something on which I have commented previously. Posting...
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