WORLD BANK: We believe that for a couple of years we’ll remain below the 2019 level and will almost never reach the growth rates that were before that.

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SOBER RUSSIA: Global economy may NEVER return to pre-pandemic growth level.

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75 billion cubic meters of natural gas!https://t.co/q5wCu28ujB

— RT (@RT_com) January 14, 2021

FYODOR ALEKSANDROVICH LUKYANOV: Perhaps, the old model of selling natural gas to Europe belongs to the past, and Russia should move forward, reorienting towards other markets and new partners.

Владимир Путин: Russia is open for mutually beneficial partnership with all countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Russia is an integral part of the Asia-Pacific region, and we will form powerful centers of attraction for capital and a new economy in our Far Eastern regions, create spaces of opportunities for people to implement the most daring business ideas and business projects.

Rod Dreher: to become Orthodox is, in some felt sense, to step away from the West.