They buy in the EU, they sell to Putin: the former USSR network that circumvents the sanctions

BRUXELLES — Armenia +195 percent, Kyrgyzstan +151 percent, Uzbekistan +53 percent, Kazakhstan +25 percent.

To understand how Russia survived the European sanctions after the aggression on Ukraine, one must take these figures. Which indicate the increase in exports from those countries to Moscow. Record surges throughout 2022 that remain constant also in the current year.