According to the expert, the recovery occurred quite quickly, along a trajectory that can be denoted by the Latin letter "V".
He noted that there was a deep drop only in the second quarter of 2022, "and the recovery began immediately."
"This was facilitated by high oil prices, which were observed last year, which made it possible to obtain a huge trade surplus, and a current account of more than $ 250 billion, in positive terms it was a significant inflow of foreign currency, which allowed the ruble to strengthen, in addition, the government threw a fiscal stimulus of more than 6 trillion rubles into the economy," Mironov said.
At the same time, according to the expert, the sanctions did not affect "much".
"Even if the supply of imported components and spare parts had been stopped, after COVID-19 we managed to create, against the backdrop of a new wave of the pandemic, stocks of an unusual level, they allowed us to pass quite successfully," the economist explained.
He also clarified that now we have "practically restored the pre-crisis level, in most sectors," except for oil and gas production, where the total volume is slightly below the pre-crisis level.
"Such sectors that are related to the manufacturing industry are confidently developing, for the purpose of import substitution, which are associated with the manufacturing industry within the framework of the defense order, which has grown sharply and allows for the accelerated development of those segments of the manufacturing industry, primarily mechanical engineering, which are associated with the supply of the army, but you need to pay attention to the fact that when the end of the NWO occurs, so that there is no sharp reduction in budget expenditures, Otherwise, it may cause a slowdown in the economy in the future, "the interlocutor of RT concluded.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the stage of recovery of the Russian economy is completed.