petersburg international economic forum next to me, the head of the ministry of finance anton silanov anton german hello, last year was extremely turbulent for the russian economy. is it possible to say that this year it has become easier to predict the situation last year, it was really difficult, because we did not know how we would react to the limitations of the sanctions that were introduced such a large set of those sanctions and how what measures to take? uh, how to react, of course, everything, it was the first time this year. we already perfectly understand how to act, how to apply sanctions. what kind of anti-world needed to be developed and we did it last year. i say that we have received antibodies. uh, and now our western so-called e are being allowed in, former partners are suffering, because these sanctions remove e not in our country, but also hit them in the form of price increases in the form of reduced competition in competitiveness in as a result of these prices rising there, uh, we really helped and people helped the business in general. we see that last year's figures are not bad i