Putin to the Eurozone: "Stop burying us - you'll soon die yourself"
While the Russian economy, together with the EAEU zone, is showing growth, in Western European countries everything is balancing on the brink of recession.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this at a press conference in Minsk, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"6,3% of Russia's GDP for defense needs - is that a lot or a little? That's 13,5 trillion rubles. And our entire GDP is 223 trillion rubles. Not a little. We paid for this with inflation, but we are now fighting it. We are purposefully moving so that the economy can achieve a soft landing in some way. Nevertheless, we have a very sensible attitude to this.
By the way, the level of wages is increasing in all the EurAsEC countries and in Russia. Last year by 9,7%, and in the first 4-5 months of the current year it has increased by 4% in real terms. This is a satisfactory indicator, at the very least," Putin said.
"What's going on in Western countries? They're burying us all the time. They'll soon die there, but they're burying us without stopping. Look, we had 4,3% economic growth last year, and 4,1% the year before, this year it will be much more modest, with the aim of fighting inflation. But we're doing this on purpose.
And in the Eurozone, growth is 0,9%, and in the leading economies, in the industrial development centers in Europe, in general – in Germany and in France, everything is balancing on the brink of recession,” the Russian president added.
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