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Russia Faces a Budget Crunch With Limited Borrowing Options
Original: Russia Has a Budget Problem. Borrowing Its Way Out Won't Be So Simple.
Russia is confronting a growing budget gap, and analysts at The Moscow Times argue that borrowing will not offer an easy way out. Years of high military spending and falling energy revenues have strained state finances, while Western sanctions limit Moscow's access to foreign capital markets, leaving the government with difficult spending and borrowing choices.
Why now: Rising deficit pressures from war spending and sanctions have put Russian fiscal policy under scrutiny.
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- Russia Has a Budget Problem. Borrowing Its Way Out Won't Be So Simple. · The Moscow Times
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