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There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell

Excellent journalism. No agena, no indoctrination just information and that too sourced with great effort and expertise. Wonderful!!

Sanctions are best way to increase the demands and price of any thing and increase illegal trade.

Similar things are happening in our neighborhood also. Goods from India reaches Pakistan via GCC countries.

This is a very good episode. Hope, these gets talked about more in the western media (i get it, it's a fool's Gold).

Shekhar sir no CTC episode on 140+ members expelled from parliament? Looking forward for the same…

Casually explaining.... .... ... I had a phonecall with Dawoon Abrahim.

Wow, you made dawood a desh bakth? Only the print 👏👏👏😂😂

Sad to hear Nikhil is no longer working with the print.I really enjoyed the quiz he organised for members.

EVEN AT THIS OLD AGE HE IS DOING SHAMELESS CHAMCHAGIRI

This was a very interesting one, found it to be a very nice example of investigative journalism

This also explains semiconductor investments in India which can be exported to both west and non West

Kya pakdey hain Guptaji. Recently which as late as last week a friend of mine was in Uzbekistan... He called up to tell that there is an huge number of Europeans here in Tashkent so much so that it's difficult finding a hotel room with clean sheets. A hotel room in a 5 star property would go for as little as 35 dollars. This winter it's 200 dollars plus in Hayat. And together us could find no perticular reason for this spike, and now when I hear you, it has started making sense. Is it old silk Road revival ?

Very nice insight into western world hypocrisy and politics, economics.... India should also take advantage of this situation and condition.

Sir, have you considered the possibility that the Central Asian countries were earlier importing these items from / through Russia? And now as that option does not remain they must import from Europe or elsewhere. While I do agree with the logic used for this CTC, I think the stated possibility was missed. Yes, data may not be freely available, but we do need to consider other angles, as always.

And they wanted to ban diamonds from India 😂

Same is true the other way round...Europe is indirectly buying Russian oil..

This for us middle income countries to learn from on how sanctions work and how we should resist such orders and care for our national interest. Good finding SG and team.

Thankyou shekar sir for the good journalism and clear views on the episode.

The one thing which the Western countries particularly US and EU never understand is that sanctions never ever work. It only encourages black market economy. Just to give one example. The US had a 52 years economic embargo on Cuba. Did it succeed in bringing down the communist regime?? No. There is not a single country in the world where an autocratic regime had collapsed because of sanctions. Still they use the same method again and again and again.

Thank you Shekar ji - loved the content in today’s CTC.

You may be right but the period of comparison you are discussing is the COVID second wave(Jan-Sept 2021) when people were struggling for their lives.

I'm too drunk to care about Ukraine.

gupta ji time for a good off the cuff episode, don't you think?

Well done India. Pragmatic and level headed.

Where ever there is a demand , there is a supply.

Great episode 👍

Very well put sir .

Good informative episode by Shekhar and team

Modern are cars have a lot of electronics than can be canibalized for defense purposes.

Data just from 2021 will be skewed as a base because of the pandemic. A more proper base for comparison will be to take an average of previous 3-4 years and then compare it with 2023.

Great work as I live in Europe so I know how things are going on. you have perfect info.

The BIGGEST deal is: India buys much more oil from Russia, refines it and sells back to Europe. The deals through west Asian countries are much smaller. I don't blame India, it acts according to india's national interests just like USA and all the European countries.

Shekhar ji thanks for enlightening us all on matters of huge concern worldwide in the last three days but keeping us in the dark of the really important matters closer home. 😅

Day 3 of great journalism focusing on the most burning issues of the country. 141 MPs? That's nothing! Happens all the time. No clutter there!

I like your session sir 🎉

Russia ko kira makura samaj rahe the This war may have hurt russia but it also made Russia to become more self reliant

How do these goods get to these landlocked "Stans"

Casually calls dawood 😂

Good business for Central Asia companies which are the Middle men for Xin Jiang and Turkiye....Estonia is exporting to Central Asia... What a Surprise

Irtyish river in Kazakhstan uses lots of small boats for smuggling

There are always under the radar activities. The missing piece of data is the ratio of these indirect import from the West to Russia via the stans compared to the direct import before the sanction. Is it 90%, 50% or 10%. If it were only 10%, then we could safely say the sanction is working. 80%, not at all.

Stans discovered a love for German cars

27 March 1992 Dunedin Check korlam Sekharji❤❤ Excellent episode yet again Storytelling e PhD Sir aapni❤❤ It takes two to clap? Na two to tango?? 😂

Shekhar is giving a certificate to dawood..

Not "all of NATO" introduced crippling sanctions. Turkey, which has the second largest military in NATO with only the US being larger, has declined the United States' invitation to self-harm through sanctioning Russia. It's to the detriment of European citizens that only Orban of Hungary - though recently joined by Fico of Slovakia - stood his ground against the pressure to conform.

This type of trade immediately produces the organised crime, that eats up the state down the line.

I'm sure there might something funny happening. However, We have conveniently forgotten the fact that 2021 was COVID time. May be pre-covid data would give a better perspective. I wish @ThePrintIndia did that exercise.

War is a bussiness, a bankster bussiness, and every one is trying to profit from it.

The continuous tss tss tss during display of graphics or text is quite distracting.

Wish our Finance ministry understand gold smuggling and havala to bank these import taxes.

Mearsheimer and George Kennan baoth noted that America's expansion of NATO in east europe was wrong and was like poking a bear at a time when you should make friends with them to face china threat but America didn't listen and see the results.

So Europe is playing the Vibhishan in the war… that makes Putin the परम पूज्य श्रीराम in this case 😜😜

WOW Shekhar ji, sometimes praising Kejriwal ji and now praising Dawood, what's the motive

1. If Europe can buy Russian diesel and oil via India, then why Russia cannot buy European goods via Central Asian countries? 2. It is strange that German cars are so popular in Russia when India made South Korean and Japanese cars would be easily available under rupee payment terms!!! 3. All this shows futility of sanctions in general as its impact is lost over a period of time. But who will make American understand this logic and common sense?

Sanctions are quite undemocratic if you ask me. How can you take away necessary good from people just because you don't like their leader. Imagine if the CM of a state in India is not particularly liked by the PM, and the central government imposes sanctions so that necessary goods are not able to reach the people in that state, what would you call that?

I'm finding hard to care about ru ukr war, it's been 2 yrs now, unless some major development occurs... Idc

100 pants and 31000 pants just saying.

My take away west has same moral compass as Dawood bhai

Promoting terrorist now official policy of print ?

Shekhar we lost few more jawans in karshmir.. opposition talking only parliment MP ban. Please talk hard on current government what they are doing.. how to plan to stop this daily blood bath?. I am tired of seeing our losses.. lets have a parliment session only dedicated to handling terror.. let all parties come together and see how to handle this and come in "one voice".

Wrong heading

Разочаровал конечно, индус…

Sir ab to addition ho gya h aapko sunne ka!

*The impact of sanctions on the Russian economy* Russia is the largest economy in Europe and its growth rate is now ahead of all the leading countries of the European Union. The number of foreign companies in Russia has not decreased since 2022, but rather increased. As of March 1, 2022, 24.1 thousand foreign organizations were registered in Russia; as of November 1, 2023, there were almost 1.5 thousand more - 25.6 thousand companies. At the beginning of 2022, most global brands left Russia, leaving storefronts in shopping centers and streets empty. Now their niche has been filled by Russian colleagues. The passenger car market doubled in November compared to November last year. The truck market grew 1.7 times compared to November last year. The Moscow Exchange index grew by 46% over the year, taking into account dividends and inflation - by 47%. The manufacturing business activity index (PMI Manufacturing) from S&P Global was 53.8 points in November. In November, the annual average index rose to 53.2 points. This is slightly below the April 2008 level, but above the 2011 record (15-year peak). Industrial production in October increased by 5.3%, which is about 30% of GDP. In October 2023, the industrial production index amounted to 136% of the 2014 level. This is the best October ever. Output in basic sectors of the economy increased by 7.7% in October. This is the best October ever. The Ministry of Economic Development estimated GDP growth in October at 5%. Russia's GDP growth in the third quarter of 2023 relative to the corresponding period last year was 5.5%, according to a preliminary assessment by Rosstat. This is a record quarterly growth of Russian GDP since the fourth quarter of 2021. Russia ranked fourth in terms of real GDP growth in the world. At the end of the second quarter, the annual figure increased by almost five percent. The first three places are in India, China and Indonesia. The USA is in ninth place. Germany and France did not even make it into the top ten. From January to November, Russian federal budget revenues increased to 25.96 trillion rubles, an increase of 4.8% year on year. Non-oil and gas revenues over the same period increased by 25.6% year-on-year and amounted to 17.7 trillion rubles, according to a preliminary estimate by the Russian Ministry of Finance. Based on the results of three quarters of 2023, the share of oil and gas revenues of the federal budget amounted to just over 28% of all revenues. Profits of enterprises in September added 4.6 trillion. - a new historical record. In 2023, 176 new factories and production facilities were opened in Russia. Such rates are associated with the implementation of state programs for industrial development and attraction of investments in this area. The main areas of activity of new factories today are the development of such industries as automotive, energy, food industry and information technology. Examples of new factories: • The Russian Avtoprom car production plant offers a wide range of cars of different classes and price categories. • Plant for the production of anti-lock braking systems and electronic dynamic stabilization systems for passenger cars in Kostroma. • Tekhnostroy electronics plant in Ulyanovsk, specializing in the production of computers, mobile devices, televisions and other electronic devices. • Motherboard production plant in Tatarstan, producing 300 thousand motherboards per year. • A plant for large-scale production of computing and radio-electronic products in the Moscow region, producing the first Russian tablet on its own operating system. The Russian Federation's budget deficit of 5 trillion rubles last year due to a special military operation and Western sanctions was resolved through additional ruble emission. The Russian economy is under-monetized, because of this, printing money led to the growth of the Russian economy this year. Economic indicators of the Russian Federation are breaking historical records! According to the economist, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on economic policy M.G. Delyagin in Russia there is a low monetization coefficient (the ratio of the M2 money supply to GDP), so the injection of additional money into the economy will have a positive impact. The standard value of the monetization coefficient is 50% or more. With its actual value ranging from 0 to 50%, there is a shortage of cash in the country, and there is a high probability of the emergence of cash surrogates. To make normal investments in fixed assets, the level of monetization of the economy must be at least 80%. At the end of 2022, the monetization of the Russian economy amounted to 54.40%, with the world average level of 125%. In 2021, monetization rates in Russia were 50.57%. For comparison, monetization rates in other countries in 2021: Japan - 217.43% China - 212.56% UK - 139.20% France - 129.66% Germany - 101.41% USA - 94.16% If the Russian budget does not have enough money to cover expenses, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will simply print it, and this will lead to the growth of the Russian economy. I will quote Sergei Glazyev, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “... If you pumped up your money, but nothing has changed in your system, you will get inflation on top at the output. And if you pumped up money, and the money went into production, into new technologies, in increasing efficiency, in reducing costs, in expanding the production of goods, then you will have a decrease in inflation. And if you stopped supplying money altogether, yes, and production fell, then you will again end up with an increase in inflation, because the supply of goods has decreased This is the basics!!! ... All successfully developing countries operate on a very high monetary emission, especially over the last 10 years. The money supply is growing at a tremendous pace in all countries. But at the same time there is no inflation. Look, in America, Trump poured in 5 trillion dollars, now Biden is ready to pour in another 3 trillion. I'm not even talking about China, where the growth rate of the money supply was 30% and 40% per year..." Now the printed money has gone into the production of weapons, into the construction of fortifications of the Russian Armed Forces in the special operation zone, into the construction of the infrastructure of new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which was destroyed as a result of hostilities, into the production of goods that became necessary as a result of the departure of foreign companies and sanctions, etc. Construction is one of the 10 industries with the maximum final output multiplier, which is 5.05. This has become a driver of growth in the Russian economy. Moreover, the lower the share of imported goods in the economy, the higher the multiplier will be. The departure of foreign companies from Russia increased this multiplier. The final output multiplier measures the impact of an initial change in government or private spending (autonomous spending) on the total output that is generated and distributed in the economy. The multiplier is based on the concept that individual income received and spent in one part of the economy (for example, investment or consumption) can lead to additional income and output in other parts of the economy. For example, if a government increases government spending, this can have a multiplier effect, leading to an increase in total output and income in the economy. *Impact of sanctions on the EU economy* Eurozone GDP decreased by 0.1% in July-September this year compared to the second quarter, according to preliminary data from Eurostat. Germany, Europe's largest economy, contracted 0.1% in July-September. The United States is trying to destroy Europe as an independent political and economic player. This was stated by French observer Thierry Meyssan, characterizing the current political situation in the world. According to Meyssan, the United States is already waging war against European countries, because they know that Russia and China are “too tough for them.” But Washington wants to dominate Europe, and continues to attack European countries under false flags. The Ukrainian armed conflict is being used by the United States to impose economic sanctions, despite the fact that the UN does not impose or support these sanctions. Unilateral sanctions from the United States are not legitimate, the French journalist notes. Thierry Meyssan noted that the United States convinced the EU countries to impose sanctions against “themselves.” For example, Germany has stopped importing Russian gas, which has a catastrophic effect on the economy of this country. Let us note that in Europe, many analysts demonstrate dissatisfaction with anti-Russian sanctions, noting their obvious detrimental effect not so much on the Russian, but on the European economy. Germany, which was considered the “flagship” of the EU economy, is suffering the most from sanctions against Russia. Western sanctions measures harm those who impose them against Russia. Sanctions have eliminated competition in the Russian domestic market, which is good for domestic producers and the Russian economy as a whole. Even though Russia does not have everything in the country that is required, for example, to produce chips or other equipment, it is supported by the majority of the world’s population. For example, China, which is an unusually technologically advanced state and is constantly developing, supplies Russia with the goods that it needs. But in the modern world, it is also not a problem to simply bypass sanctions.

Sir Why don't you speak Hindi 😊?

this man are some of the people who only believe that its only the west that can produce high tech comodities ,,😂😂😂😂

He is saying Dawkins Ibrahim is a patriot 😅who killed hundreds of innocent Indians sitting in Pakistan

He came to know this now only😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. He is western p pt.

This is all bs 3:08 Dawood is patriot 😅😅😂😂😂

Sherlock ji (Shekhar Ji ) You were in so Childish Innocent State That You Believed in Dahood Ibrahim Bhai that He Lost Money 💰 After Reduction in Import Tax on Gold by Manmohan Singh But He Praised Him and Declared Him Good Boy and You Believed Him and Was Very 🥳 Happy

#stopvivekbindra

Dawood Ibrahim a patriot?

Stop Vivek Bindra

Dawood is a patriot 🤣 what a shameless thug

Congress doing anti Hindu things is so normal

Unrelated matter: Shekhar there was a Time when you Pranoy & Dorabh show & analysis was a treat to watch & I used to hear you intently. Ever since you have sold your soul via cut the clutter “hook line & sinker” time & time again favoring the RSS & Closing your eyes to modi’s draconian ways & to what ever modi’s genie & a goon of a vp behaves peevishly I am just shocked that you avoid the outrageous behaviors of the modi gov & take on topics to help avoid discussing the murder of Indian democracy

SG picks the most useless topics when there are more Bruning issues in the country. This man once used to be a journalist in Indian Express. What a fall!

Fake guy agent 007 love u china