According to Russia’s official statistics agency, production of vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers was more than 50 per cent higher in June than in the same month of 2022. Meanwhile, the central bank reports that, in the first quarter of this year, shortages of workers at industrial enterprises were at their most acute since records began in 1998. The central bank also estimates annualised inflation over the past three months at 7.6 per cent, well above its 4 per cent a year target.Naturally, we have to treat official economic data in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia with considerable caution. But the picture painted by these three indicators is probably not far from the truth. Eighteen months after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia displays many classic symptoms of a wartime economy, such as inflation, labour shortages, rising government expenditure and deficit financing.
根據俄羅斯官方統計機構的數據，6月份該國汽車、掛車和半掛車的產量較2022年同期增長逾50%。與此同時，俄羅斯央行報告，今年第一季度，工業企業的工人短缺達到自1998年有記錄以來的最嚴重水平。俄羅斯央行還估計，過去3個月的年化通脹率為7.6%，遠高于4%的年化目標。