{"id":22135,"date":"2024-10-17T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=22135"},"modified":"2024-10-17T19:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:27:40","slug":"potemkin-villages-in-russian-economy-begin-to-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/potemkin-villages-in-russian-economy-begin-to-crumble\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Potemkin villages&#8221; in russian economy begin to crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The false narrative of russian propaganda claiming that the economy is allegedly booming despite sanctions is becoming increasingly obvious. European economists have published a report suggesting that the russian federal state statistics service&#8217;s data on economic growth in 2023 and 2024 may be fabricated.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Experts highlight that russian authorities have significantly underestimated a key economic indicator\u2014the inflation rate. This is supported by alternative calculations conducted by private research agencies. When adjusted for real inflation, the illusion fades\u2014the officially reported GDP growth turns into a significant decline.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that the war and sanctions are severely draining the russian economy. As putin remains determined to prolong the war, the impact will soon be felt by every russian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the kremlin has already started to &#8220;dip into the pockets&#8221; of ordinary citizens to fund the war. As reported earlier, russia plans to increase its military budget by a quarter next year, while significantly cutting social spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The false narrative of russian propaganda claiming that the economy is allegedly booming despite sanctions is becoming increasingly obvious. European economists have published a report suggesting that the russian federal state statistics service&#8217;s data on economic growth in 2023 and 2024 may be fabricated. \u25ab\ufe0f Experts highlight that russian authorities have significantly underestimated a key&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":538,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}