But that’s just it. I don’t think it is hurting them that much, at least not yet. They are well prepared for this and have a very low debt to gdp ratio while providing a ton of petroleum products that can be sold almost anywhere. They also have a very large gold reserve. If the sanctions last a long time then yes that could hurt but as long as India and China are willing to trade and they may force EUto buy rubles, Russia will do much better than you think economically.
Meanwhile here in America, we are pretty screwed next year but the media will try to tell how good it is for us to have less