[Yo-Yo]

And yet:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4206329/posts

Russia's economy is going strong despite sanctions from the U.S. and its allies

Despite sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy has not suffered.

Russia has been hit with huge economic sanctions since it invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago. But the Russian economy has remained strong, defying many economists' expectations.

So Putin and his Government has lots of oil money, but nowhere to spend it?

[Dogbert41]

Their stores look a lot nicer than ours, are well stocked, and prices MUCH more stable and lower. Their government isn’t at war agsinst tgeir own citizens for some strange reason.

[nitzy]

In November, egg prices rose by 40.29 percent year-on-year

40%...that's it???? I guess the author has never been in a US grocery store.