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Related: About this forumRussian Oil & Gas Revenue Crashes 46% & Economy Suffers $34 Billion Deficit in February - Joe Blogs
RUSSIA's Economy has COLLAPSED to its Worst Deficit in Russian History after the first two months of 2023 as Oil & Gas Revenues Crashed & Costs Increased Dramatically in January and February. The European Union Ban & Price Cap on CRUDE OIL came into effect on 5th December however the additional Ban & Cap on REFINED Products did not start until 5th February so the results for February only include a percentage of this impact and are likely to get significantly worse in March. In this video I provide more details of the February figures and discuss the problems that Russia is now facing.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:14 FEBRUARY RESULTS
4:20 OIL & GAS REVENUE
7:21 NON OIL & GAS
8:03 EXPENSES
8:46 DEFICIT
10:03 IMF FORECASTS
12:27 OIL PRICE
16:35 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION
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Russian Oil & Gas Revenue Crashes 46% & Economy Suffers $34 Billion Deficit in February - Joe Blogs (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Mar 2023
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Phoenix61
(18,829 posts)1. That's great news! I seem to recall reading somewhere
that the sanctions hadn't hurt the Russian economy and that Putin had found a work around. Seems not so much.
Dopers_Greed
(2,647 posts)6. That's what Putin is trying to make people believe
And of course, the US mainstream media needs to be "neutral" and show "both sides", so they report in his favor.
brer cat
(27,588 posts)2. Seems like he is on the back side of FAFO.
Lonestarblue
(13,480 posts)3. Theo whole Russian economy needs to tank. Maybe then Putin would be gone.
niyad
(132,446 posts)4. Somebody please finish him already!
paleotn
(22,218 posts)5. Thus, going to Xi hat in hand so to speak.
Martin68
(27,749 posts)7. It's interesting that the USSR was defeated by economic forces, and now Putin is going to suffer
the same fate. If you don't learn from history...