“As we look at world GDP, it is now impossible to see how we can avoid a recession,” RIA Novosti quotes his answer to a question about the impact of the situation in Ukraine on world GDP.

Malpas stated that the negative consequences of the Ukrainian crisis will go beyond Russia and Ukraine.

He also noted that the reduction in Russian energy supplies to Europe could lead to a "significant slowdown" in the development of the European economy.

Earlier, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) listed the factors affecting the state of the world economy.

Director of the Center for Regional Policy of the RANEPA, Doctor of Economics Vladimir Klimanov, in an interview with the FBA "Economics Today", assessed the prospects for dedollarization of the Russian economy.