“As for the Russian economy and sanctions, the Russian economy really surprised us with the strength of its growth,” RIA Novosti quotes Kozak.
On February 12, the first deputy managing director of the fund, Gita Gopinath, emphasized that the Russian economy remains in the “territory of positive growth.”
As the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, noted, analysts in the West are less and less aware of how things really are in the Russian economy: they do not take into account the significant changes in the processes taking place in it.
The International Monetary Fund has revised its assessment of Russia's economic development towards improvement and predicted the country's GDP growth.