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Behind Russia’s ‘high income’ rating from World Bank: Why Western sanctions haven’t worked
Almost two and a half years after the imposition of wide-ranging Western sanctions, how is Russia’s economy doing? Unexpectedly well, global data sets suggest.Earlier this month, the World Bank upgraded Russia from an “upper-middle income” country to a “ …