https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/economy/Recent content in Economy on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-junior-partner-russias-vassalage-to-china/Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-junior-partner-russias-vassalage-to-china/Putin went to war to build a multipolar world that would dethrone the West and restore Russia to the front rank. The multipolar world arrived on schedule — and it crowned Beijing, not Moscow. What looks like a strategic pivot to China is in truth a national demotion: Russia is becoming a tribute-paying resource colony of a power that builds belts, not alliances.https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/what-sanctions-can-and-cannot-do/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/what-sanctions-can-and-cannot-do/Sanctions are neither useless theatre nor a silver bullet that can topple a dictatorship or end a war by themselves. They cannot overthrow a regime, impose a total embargo, or dethrone the dollar by decree. But aimed precisely — at frozen reserves, the shadow fleet, the war economy itself — they are a slow tourniquet on the resource the war runs on. They win nothing alone; they work only alongside force.