Two years after the start of the sanctions after prolonged drop in oil prices, the largest financial Agency Bloomberg noted the beginning of the largest restructuring in the Russian economy over the past 15 years. According to experts, this passes without too much fuss and fanfare, in contrast to Saudi Arabia, where the programme Vision 2030, launched in April, was presented very loudly.
The result of the collapse in oil prices was the recovery of a number of Russian industries, in this case they will become points of growth for the Russian economy in the future. “New drivers of growth have already appeared. These are agriculture, chemical and food industry, domestic tourism”, — said the Agency Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Maxim Oreshkin. And this is very good news, although in other sectors to cover the decline so far, and failed.
At least, good news abound that Bloomberg concluded that the longest for 20 years, the recession in Russia could end in the third quarter of 2016. This is evidenced by the number of financial-economic indicators. Inflation slowed to 7.3%, and this despite the fact that the peak wave of the crisis, it reached 16.9 percent, the highest level in 13 years. While the contribution of agriculture to GDP increased to 4.4% — the highest figure since 2003, Bloomberg reported.
According to experts Bloomberg, the transition to a floating exchange rate helped many sectors of the economy, and that compensated for the problems from the fall of the energy market and sanctions. However, given the sanctions, the investment climate indicators remain problematic point, though the situation is improving: the world Bank Doing Business ranking, the country has risen to 51-th place.
Can we be surprised that Bloomberg finds so many positive and talks about the global change for the better in a time when anti-Russian propaganda those same Western countries — politicians, “experts” and the media says that Russia is sliding into the abyss. We’re leaving in isolation, stagniruet and everything is very bad. But, actually, everything is quite logical: those who make do loud anti-Russian rhetoric, and Bloomberg — have absolutely different tasks.
Western politicians, especially American, are trying in the first place, “to sink a competitor threatening their monopoly: strong, independent, outgoing solely on their own decisions and interests of Russia it is absolutely not necessary. Therefore, it is necessary to think, the better our country will be going, the stronger will be the intensity of anti-Russian statements. Bloomberg also provides financial Analytics for the business. And cares about its reputation. Therefore, their data must be fair and objective, and less SAG under market conditions.
However, not only Bloomberg is forced to konstatirovat, to strangle the Russian sanctions failed. Another influential new York times reports that “contrary to expectations, the Russian economy is coping with the recession caused by falling oil prices and Western sanctions.” And according to world-renowned magazine the Economist, the Russian ruble has been listed as the most underestimated world currencies — after all, the so-called index of “big Mac” the dollar should be 23.2 ruble.
According to a survey conducted by the American CFA Institute, which was attended by 120 jobs for thousands of financiers, Russia was in fourth place in the list of regions most attractive for investments in 2015. And before that a columnist of Forbes Kenneth Raposa reported in its submission that the impact of Russia, against the expectations of the West, has forced its economy to work harder.
In short, Western business community experts recognize that the Western policy of economic isolation against Russia suffered a crushing defeat. The truth is that current economic prospects for Russia — not only did not worsen, but even improved the prospects of our country. We have to wait until this fact is openly acknowledged and Western policy. However, as mentioned above — to wait will not be easy. Except that the Western political establishment finally realizes that the strengthening of Russia’s easier to accept than to fight.
