Russia now spends nearly half of its national budget on the war in Ukraine. A lot of that spending has boosted Russia’s economy. But after four years of fighting, the war has created a country of winners and losers. On the winning side — Russia’s military industrial complex. But for the many people outside that sphere, we asked reporter Levi Bridges to dig into how they survive
in an economy transformed by war.
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