Hello! This is Alexandra Prokopenko with your weekly guide to the Russian economy — brought to you by The Bell. In today’s newsletter, we’ll look at how Russian business has fared in one year of war and what it expects in the coming months. We’ll also discuss Russia’s suspension of its membership in New START and Xi Jinping’s visit. Business expects financial pressure, repression in second year of war Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing his efforts to consolidate Russia’s elite.

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This material (information) has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent The Bell or applies to the activities of a foreign agent The Bell. 18+ A year after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, she almost ceased to influence global investors: the prices for commodity returned to their previous levels, Europe will quite avoid recession, and the shares of European companies are now even more expensive than before the war.

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February 24 - the terrible anniversary of the beginning of the war of Russia in Ukraine, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, leaving millions of people without home. What the invasion cost Ukraine, we told in detail here . But what the first days and months of the war looked like for Ukrainians - in just a few photographs that we remember. On the first day of the war, Vladimir Zelensky announced martial law in the country and signed a decree on general mobilization.

Exactly a year ago, Russia began the war in Ukraine, which was followed by unprecedented economic sanctions. Despite the fact that the Russian economy, contrary to last year’s forecasts, did not collapse under the gravity of many restrictions at the end of 2022, Russia lost many of the import channels of strategically important products and lost the opportunity to export many resources and goods.