the main factor that is likely to hold back the growth of our economy, say the european bank for reconstruction and development, and it also slows down gdp growth, restrictions. domestic demand, of course, ukrainians began to spend less of their money on various goods and services, someone lost income, income, someone is trying to save money, so to speak, as a reserve, so the labor shortage and not such a shortage of investments as well, well , in fact, slows down the growth of our economy, well it is interesting that the world continues... to discuss new economic restrictions for the aggressor country. france and the netherlands are demanding that the european union impose sanctions on any bank or financial institution that helps the russian military pay for goods or technology for the production of weapons. well, such a ban may encourage the financial institutions of the middle east, turkey and even china to stop concluding various monetary agreements with moscow. thus, the aggressor country may lose access to various important goods and lose access to european business, well , this is an interesting initiat

forecast for the russian economy; this year gdp growth is expected to be almost 3% instead of one and a half and more than one and a half next year; the european bank for reconstruction and development has also revised the figures. analysts explain that the growth factors were a manufacturing boom in the defense sector and increased trade with china. the us treasury has threatened to restrict raiffeisen bank's access to the american financial system. cooperation with russia, reports this. it is known that washington expressed dissatisfaction, in particular with the possible purchase of a stake in construction concert strabak. this austrian group remains one of the few who have not yet sold their russian division. let me remind you that in addition to the bank itself , the leasing and insurance management company raifazin operates in our country. germany and sweden criticized us tariffs on chinese electric cars. the swedish prime minister called it stupid. ideas that are destructive to global trade, and his german colleague recalled that at least 50% of imports of electric vehicles from china come from western brands. according to the wall street journal, for carts now you will have

the figures were also revised by the european bank for reconstruction and development. e a manufacturing boom in the defense sector and increased trade with china. the us treasury has threatened to restrict raiffeisen bank's access to the american financial system. the reason for cooperation with russia, this was reported. this austrian group remains one of the few who have not yet sold the russian division. let me remind you, in addition to the bank itself, in our country there are leasing and insurance management companies raifazin. germany and sweden criticized the tariffs.

this was reported by analysts of the european bank for reconstruction and development. tly, the damage to electricity and electrical energy infrastructure as a result of shelling is such a factor really limits our further growth, say the edb, our economy will also be slowed down by limited domestic demand, ukrainians. save, try not to make unnecessary expenses, as well as the shortage of labor force and insufficient volume of investments, these are also factors that do not add growth to ukrainian gdp so far. well, the prices are only increasing and will increase in the next few months. the national bank of ukraine says that inflation will accelerate due to the depletion of food stocks from the last harvest, as well as... due to rising costs business for payment of labor, in order to find specialists, entrepreneurs, well, are forced to raise salaries and attract labor resources in this way. at the same time, the national bank emphasizes that they will do everything in their power to curb price growth with their various monetary mechanisms in order to stick to certain such

this forecast was announced by the european bank for reconstruction and development. y, the damage to power grids of the energy infrastructure due to shelling is the main factor that is likely to hold back the growth of our economy. say the european bank reconstruction and development, well, it also slows down gdp growth, limited domestic demand, well, of course, ukrainians began to spend less of their money on various goods and services, someone lost income, income, someone is trying to save money, so to speak, as a reserve, so the labor shortage forces and not such a deficit of investments as well, well, in fact it slows down. the growth of our economy, and it is interesting that the world continues to discuss new economic restrictions for the aggressor country. france and the netherlands demand that the european union impose sanctions against any bank or financial institution that helps the russian military pay for goods or technology for the production of weapons. well, such a ban can encourage financial institutions of the middle east. turkey and even china to sto

you know the ebrd which is the european bank for reconstruction and development. you served there with great distinction as a senior civil servant there, as a corporate officer i think. so it's the bank -- a private sector led bank for the post-soviet space plus now the sub's apparent -- sub's apparent africa. it's a big role in ukraine. could you please talk about, what is it doing in ukraine? can you also talk about what the biden administration did that was excellent early on in the war to support? i know you will be modest about this. i suspect you probably have something to do with what you are going to describe. i think it was important the biden administration did that. >> it's a unique institution across the system. the focus trends -- focuses transition to market economy. frankly also very much in countries that are committed to democracy. so very effective in the former soviet bloc. after the arab spring, went into many countries in north africa and the middle east. major player in egypt. also expanded into mongolia and turkey. now there is six countries

economics in brief: european bank reconstruction and development has improved the forecast for the russian; this year gdp growth is expected to be 2.5% instead of one and another one and a half next year. the revision was influenced by a manufacturing boom in the defense sector and increased trade with china. trade turnover between the united states and russia in march increased one and a half times and exceeded $470 million. this was reported by rionovosti with reference to data from the american statistical service. the main factor is the supply of uranium. americans are rushing to buy it before the new ones come into force restrictions. in march, 54.5 tons of this fuel were imported into the states. $127 million. purchases of russian foreign assets by foreigners increased almost sevenfold, exceeding a billion dollars in the first quarter, rbc reports. the largest deals this year were transactions with a majority stake in the carrier global trans and the armenian subsidiary of mts. interest in such transactions is growing, and one of the reasons is sanctions risks. spending by russians o