Russia's surprising consumer spending boom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Other sectors, such as leisure, are reaping the benefits of the spending boom too.Sasha Skolov, creative director of Sila Vetra, a sailing company courting Russia's middle and upper middle class, says many of its customers -- either because of travel restrictions, difficulties getting visas or exorbitant airfare prices -- were seeking adventures inside the country, something that never would have happened before the invasion.
57% : "The sharp increase in public spending has alarmed some fiscal conservatives who along with the central bank had been successful at reining in state-subsidised programmes.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.