{"id":37679,"date":"2025-09-09T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=37679"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:57:35","slug":"russian-businesses-brace-for-an-economic-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/russian-businesses-brace-for-an-economic-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian businesses brace for an economic downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most russian companies are preparing for further economic decline. A survey among business representatives showed that 57% of enterprises expect a downturn by the end of the year. Only 28% hope for a recovery, while the rest see no clear prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fBusinesses admit that 90% of companies had to look for new partners and suppliers, and many failed to do so. The so-called \u201cfriendly countries\u201d did not compensate for the losses from the war and sanctions. Many businesses also had to reduce staff, and the labor shortage adds further difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>These pessimistic sentiments sharply contrast with the kremlin\u2019s claims of \u201ceconomic resilience\u201d and \u201cadaptation to sanctions.\u201d Despite the reassuring rhetoric of putin and the propaganda, the business community clearly recognizes reality: the war and isolation are increasingly undermining the economy, and prospects are growing ever gloomier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most russian companies are preparing for further economic decline. A survey among business representatives showed that 57% of enterprises expect a downturn by the end of the year. Only 28% hope for a recovery, while the rest see no clear prospects. \u25ab\ufe0fBusinesses admit that 90% of companies had to look for new partners and suppliers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37680,"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":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679","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=37679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}