{"id":1190502,"date":"2025-07-25T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1190502"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:43:15","slug":"russian-economy-is-running-on-wartime-populism-czech-fm-lipavsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russian-economy-is-running-on-wartime-populism-czech-fm-lipavsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Economy Is Running on Wartime Populism \u2013 Czech FM Lipavsk\u00fd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Russian government is artificially propping up its economy and lying to its own people<\/strong>, said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk\u00fd in a post on X, as reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-economy\/4018610-rosijska-ekonomika-trimaetsa-na-populizmi-voennogo-casu-lipavskij.html\">Ukrinform<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Russian economy is surviving only due to artificial stability, strict control, and wartime populism. Official statistics no longer reflect reality, and economic strain will only grow as the war continues,\u201d Lipavsk\u00fd wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Russians are facing rising inflation<\/strong>, while <strong>state-controlled media blatantly lie<\/strong>. According to Lipavsk\u00fd, the seasonally adjusted annual inflation rate reached <strong>4% in June 2025<\/strong>, but <strong>actual price increases<\/strong> in services, energy, and imports are much higher. The burden falls hardest on the poor, he noted, while propaganda paints an illusion of success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cTypical Putinism. The Kremlin distorts reality and manipulates the public \u2014 a scenario we know all too well from our communist past,\u201d the Czech diplomat emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Lipavsk\u00fd also warned that <strong>the Kremlin is lying to itself<\/strong>. Non-performing loans in Russian banks have already increased by <strong>1.2% this year<\/strong>, and are expected to reach <strong>6\u20137% by 2026<\/strong>. Some banks are already pleading for state assistance. While Moscow claims the banking sector is stable, <strong>it is pushing financial institutions to restructure loans instead of addressing losses<\/strong>. Official figures, Lipavsk\u00fd argued, are merely a fa\u00e7ade to <strong>hide deepening problems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe more the Kremlin manipulates and lies, the more severe the consequences will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister underscored the importance of <strong>European unity<\/strong> and called the <strong>new EU sanctions package a step in the right direction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, <strong>the EU adopted its 18th sanctions package last week<\/strong>, focusing primarily on <strong>Russia\u2019s energy and banking sectors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government is artificially propping up its economy and lying to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1190503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1190502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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