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Marie Poteriaieva 
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3 years of full-scale war: Ukraine resists, russia teeters on collapse.
Part 2: Economy.
russia’s sovereign wealth fund (FNB) has lost 2/3 of its reserves since the war began. What remains ($118bn) is tied up in some gold but mostly renminbi, exposing russia to devaluation risks as China expands its money supply.
In 2025, over 40% of russia’s budget spending is allocated to war and domestic repression: $135bn for the military and $34bn for police. This is 8% of the GDP. Meanwhile, a massive hidden ruble emission continues through bank loans to the military. Furthermore, regional budgets are drained to fund enlistment bonuses, which have surged from 200k RUB in 2022 to over 5M now.
War spending and soaring import costs due to sanctions have driven inflation. The real rate is now estimated at around 30% (officially 10%). CB attempted to curb it by raising interest rates to 21%, but prices kept climbing, strangling the economy. While new interest hikes are on pause, Russia has resorted to Soviet-style price controls on food and gasoline.
The real estate market is forming a bubble after the government canceled mortgage subsidies, forcing buyers to take loans at over 33% interest.
Due to sanctions, Gazprom is now unprofitable, selling gas to China at near-break-even prices ($271 per 1km³). It still supplies Europe but at $481, down from $983 in 2022.
China is scaling back its russian coal imports (-7% in 2024), and those it does buy come at rock-bottom prices, effectively killing the industry. As coal mines struggle to turn a profit, the domestic market is also suffering. In Kuzbass, russia's famous coal region, residents are now pleading in videos for affordable coal to avoid freezing.
In electricity-heated areas, like Irkutsk or Primorye, people risk freezing too. Monthly electricity bills have recently skyrocketed to 20-30k RUB for an average apartment, while the median salary is only 38k RUB.
And if you’re wondering why russians heat with electricity, here’s the irony: millions of households in the world’s largest gas-exporting country still lack access to gas. This from the nation that threatened to freeze Europe
Civilian industries are in decline. Sanctions have made imports prohibitively expensive, while inflated military wages (and war losses) have drained the labor force—russia’s economy is currently short 5 million workers.
Investors see the writing on the wall. Even with a 17%+ yield, russia is struggling to sell government bonds. External investors are nonexistent—despite putin’s desperate courtship of Xi and Modi, no Chinese or Indian businesses have set up ventures in russia since the war.
russia’s pivot to the East has been a failure. Exports to China and India are unprofitable and logistically challenging, and imports expensive. Yes, geography matters. Also, unlike European companies that once brought their technologies to russia, China is only using russian labor for basic assembly.
It’s time to call putin’s bluff.
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