{"id":276179,"date":"2026-02-05T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/276179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:29:12","slug":"russian-economy-shows-signs-of-increasing-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/276179\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian economy shows signs of increasing weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s economy showed signs of increasing weakness, with growth slowing, oil revenues plummeting, and inflation again a worry. <\/p>\n<p>Moscow has so far avoided the collapse that experts had predicted after sanctions were imposed over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, largely by dedicating huge spending to defense. But the effects of that spending spree may be coming into view: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260203-russia-s-economic-growth-slowed-to-1-in-2025-putin\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Growth slowed to 1% in 2025<\/a>, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged, and taxes from crude sales \u2014 crucial for government coffers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-04\/russian-oil-revenues-plunge-to-five-year-low-on-sanctions-ruble\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">halved in January<\/a> compared to the year before. <\/p>\n<p>Though inflation has slowed, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.thebell.io\/all-eyes-on-inflation-again\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">economic authorities are still on high alert<\/a>,\u201d The Bell, which focuses on Russia\u2019s economy, noted, while Commerzbank warned in a note to clients that the ruble\u2019s \u201cfundamental outlook is deteriorating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b91021d5ec9449952adb12d63b017565a2df3cef-1066x1070.jpg\"  alt=\"A chart showing Russia\u2019s GDP growth by quarter.\" width=\"740\" height=\"742\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"max-width:100%;color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s economy showed signs of increasing weakness, with growth slowing, oil revenues plummeting, and inflation again a worry.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-276179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}