Russia’s ‘Growth-Stability’ Dichotomy

Russian economic growth has underperformed the global average almost every year since the 2008-09 financial crisis Russian economic growth has underperformed the global average almost every year since the 2008-09 financial crisis. But ... ... pattern: in fact, since 2017, there has been a pronounced trend toward increasing divergence across the main sectors of the Russian economy. This has been significantly accentuated by the Covid crisis. The sectors exhibiting the highest growth appear to be those ...