Over 80% of Russians are ‘happy’ – poll

The happiness level has remained ‘consistently high’ since 2015, a national research center says More than 80% of Russians consider themselves as generally “happy,” the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) reported on Monday, noting that the high happiness figures correlated with low levels of depression reported in another recent survey.

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UK retail sales nosedive – data

UK retail sales fell unexpectedly in October, with the volume of goods sold in stores and online slumping 0.3% month-on-month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported on Friday. Economists were expecting an increase of 0.4% for the month of October. Instead, sales plummeted to their lowest level since early 2021, when Covid restrictions were…

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Argentina won’t join BRICS – newly elected president

Javier Milei pledged to stay away from China and Brazil, as well as to dollarize the country’s economy Argentina is not planning to become a member of BRICS on January 1, Diana Mondino, senior economic adviser to the country’s president-elect, Javier Milei, told Sputnik Brazil on Monday.

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