2025-01-10
12 分钟From Recorded Future News and prx, this is Click Here.
When did we last speak?
We thought maybe 20, 22 or something like that.
Yeah, I think it's.
I don't know.
So many things changed from this time.
So.
Yeah.
I'm Dina Temple Reston and this is Click Here's Mic Drop, an extended interview we think you'd like to hear more of.
Earlier this week, we brought you the story of Stan, a tech guy who was part of the exodus of professionals who left Russia in the months after the invasion of Ukraine.
And now he's returned home and seas of Russia under pressure.
On today's Mic Drop, we get a sort of grassroots economic analysis from Stan, and the parts of society he sees thriving or declining as we enter the third year of the war may surprise you.
Stay with us.
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I'm Dina Temple Rooster and this is Click Here's Mic Drop.
In this week's main episode, we talked about how there's this surprising thing happening in Russia.
Their economy in the middle of a war and heavy sanctions is kind of defying expectations.
The Kremlin is managing to goose economic growth not just in a traditional way by having factories run around the clock to produce weapons, but in more subtle ways, too.
Like with these military billboards Dan says are everywhere you look these days.
You see a lot of ads for who they want.