Russia’s War Economy Rustbelt’s revival is on fire

Russian retailers are in a hurry to build a shop in Rustbelt, which woven from the soldiers’ bonuses and new wealth flowing from rampant military production.

Shops, restaurant and gym chains opened in most people’s deprived regions, which are Vladimir Putin Ukrainian occupation. The country’s war economy has also hit the money to increase salaries for jobs and factory workers and the amount of unprecedented cities and cities.

“War is in a great equalizer in a large equalizer,” said Janis Kluge, a specialist Russia’s economy With the German Institute of International and Security Affairs. “People who live in peace, people living in many prospects, lack of education and deprived of people.”

As the war in Ukraine dragged to the fourth year of the war, government orders army Weapons and clothes were given good-paid factory work to the residents of the poor industrial campus of Russia. Concuses – tend to come from unfavorable areas – get high bonuses to join the army and receive their families and receive payments.

“The demand arises in new areas where you are not before, because people were simply too weak to go to a large retail store,” Kluge said.

Russian retail companies and recreation companies, Western sanctions and domestic interest rates, suddenly opened a trend by opening an expanding driver.

Russia’s most prominent supermarket chains said that he recently expanded in the far east of the country, recently increased by an area looking for alternative trade routes that violated the West sanctions by Russia.

The number of retail and hospitality works advertised in the Southeast Khabarovsk region has almost twice until January 2025.

Supermarket Pyaterochka, fast food chain roster and electronics seller M.Video-Eldorado, are from Russian enterprises hiring new employees.

Last year, all cities with a population of less than 100,000 people in the central Russian industrial hearts in M.Video-Eldorado, Kachkanar, Solikamsk, Voljsk.

Russia’s unemployment rate fell 4.4 percent in the same period in the same period in the same period in the same period in the same period in 2024 in the same period of 2024, as the state poured money to new vacancies, but also poured money for the army, food and fuel for the army.

Salaries also increased in connected industries, because the closely labor market has already been fleeing the army or abroad to prevent joins or fleeing workers.

The Marie Republic of Russia, RBS3MN ($ 35,600), the new army of the annual salary in the region offers RBS3MN ($ 35,600) as the new army started the bonus for employers. According to the Russian Statistics Agency, 80 percent increased by 80 percent of December 2021, increased by 80 percent of December 2021 to 2024, 80 percent compared to the Russian State Statistics Agency.

“(ORDU) Payments are giant, so they do not think to take a high-level smartphone, they can’t easily do it.”

The central Russia, which wants to do not mention, saw a difference in the number of people in the city of Central Russian city, in the city of walnuts in the city.

“These days, you can spend half an hour in the fast-food chain,” he said. “Some more beautiful restaurants need to order a table in advance in advance, it was also here here.”

Loans for large ticket purchases for large ticket purchases have still felt inaccessible for many Russians, and increase interest rates to reduce the stubborn inflation of the country’s central bank. Last year, Russian consumer prices have increased by 9.5 percent, and in 2023, and in 2023, more than 7.4 percent, official statistics.

“I have a good income, but I can’t get an apartment or a car, so I probably get a little better for grocery and spend a little more often.”

A woman from 30,000 people who have a population of less than 30,000, the neighboring schumerist, the neighborhood has opened more beauty salons: “….) There are places that offer more nail specialists and hardware cosmetology or even some basic injection.”

“We even received a special dog care service in our city, now this is a real figure,” he said.

The larger regional cities have previously started to attract institutions to Moscow’s remarks. Mental Fire, a gym that monthly membership costs to $ 70, opened a branch in Chelyabinsk Ural last year.

“People have money to spend themselves now,” he said. “It can pay more to protect your health and the growth of the fitness industry confirms it.”

Payments for dropped soldiers were another factor managing home income. A widow shared a property in Vladivostok in Vladivostok, who received his husband’s death. “Life is over? … 12 million rubles”, – or less than $ 140,000.

Laura Solanko, Finland’s Economic Institute, will be the first to lose its income with the end of the Russian war, but some turns in the regional region of the country economy will remain.

“Regions that benefit from changes in foreign trade geography will not disappear rapidly,” he said. “Those who are also increasing production and military industrial enterprises, because Russia will have to go back again until many years progress.”

Additional report by Chris Cook