RT
January 20, 2026
At the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos on Wednesday, five panelists who profess to hate Russian President Vladimir Putin and haven’t been inside Russia in years will attempt to answer the question: “Can Russia sustain a wartime economy?”
Predictions of Russia’s imminent collapse have been reliable headline-fuel in Western media for decades. The country was sliding into “strategic irrelevance” in 2001, “falling apart” in 2011, and facing the death of Putin and “succession wars” in 2015.
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