The Russian economy has been growing much faster than expected in 2023, despite numerous rounds of sanctions – in what many see a failure of Western policy. RT reviews the economic performance through the outgoing year.

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Members of a group that denies Russia’s existence had planned a sabotage attack to stop draft notices from being sent out, the agency has said Russian law enforcement agents have apprehended two members of a sect that believes that the Soviet Union still exists who were planning to blow up cell towers in the central…