Western sanctions have caused activity in certain sectors of Russia’s economy to collapse, but activity has held up reasonably well in key areas such as oil production and less import-dependent manufacturing. What’s clear, though, is that the full effect of sanctions will take years to feed through. This underpins our view that sanctions have severely reduced Russia’s medium-term growth potential.
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