Russian economy defying Western sanctions key Putin aide to RT

The country's GDP is now on track to decline by just 3% in 2022, versus the 7% projected earlier, Aleksey Kudrin said

Russia's economic contraction is now expected to be much smaller than previously thought, according to Aleksey Kudrin, the head of the Accounts Chamber and former finance minister.

He told RT on the sidelines of the INTOSAI Congress on Thursday that "the situation is actuall