据路透社报道,俄罗斯财政部长Anton Siluanov周三告诉总统弗拉基米尔·普京,由于为降低通胀而实施的高利率抑制了借贷,俄罗斯预计2025年经济增长将放缓至1.5%,低于此前预测的2.5%。尽管俄罗斯在2022年入侵乌克兰后实施了多轮西方制裁,但其战争经济在2023年和2024年分别以4.1%和4.3%的速度强劲增长。经济部长马克西姆·雷舍特尼科夫在6月警告称,除非货币政策改变,否则俄罗斯正处于陷入衰退的边缘。俄罗斯自冷战以来最高的军费开支引发了通货膨胀,促使央行在10月份将关键利率提高到21%,这是自2003年弗拉基米尔·普京总统执政初期以来的最高水平。据分析人士称,央行在6月将利率降至20%,然后在7月降至18%,但经济仍受到信贷成本和劳动力短缺的束缚。
Russia expects economic growth to ease to 1.5% in 2025, down from earlier forecasts of 2.5%, as high interest rates imposed to reduce inflation have stifled borrowing, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, as Reuters reported. Russia’s war economy grew robustly at 4.1% in 2023 and 4.3% in 2024, despite multiple rounds of Western sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov warned in June that Russia was on the brink of slipping into recession unless monetary policy changed. Russia’s highest military spending since the Cold War has stoked inflation, prompting the central bank to raise its key interest rate to 21% in October, the highest level since the early years of President Vladimir Putin’s rule in 2003. The central bank cut the interest rate to 20% in June and then to 18% in July, but the economy is still shackled by the cost of credit and labor shortages, according to analysts.