The collapse of the Russian economy, as predicted in the West, failed to materialize, Putin points out Western forecasts about the collapse of the Russian economy as a result of sanctions that were issued in early spring have not come to pass, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

The disgraced crypto mogul “orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds in history,” government prosecutors argued FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in a US federal prison for stealing billions of dollars from customers and defrauding investors. The one-time cryptocurrency guru has also been ordered to pay $11 billion in restitution.

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