

We need to remember that Russia will do everything to make sure that the economy looks stable. If you print money and grant high risk loans to weapons suppliers you will have a positive GDP growth, though absolutely not a healthy economy. You won’t see Russias GDP slowly start to go into the negatives, it will grow and then it will suddenly collapse.
Context for the foreigners. A man was sleeping in that cabin when the boat drove up on shore. He only woke up after his neighbor came to check on him.