Even more funnier is the fact that now Russia is earning more thanks to the sanctions. As a result of these sanctions and embargoes the gas prices have gone up by multiple times and the crude oil prices have reached a level not seen since 2014. They maybe selling less amount of oil and gas, but from these exports, they are earning more revenues. For the year 2021 Gazprom alone earned a profit of close to $21 billion (almost 20x higher than the level from 2020). For the year of 2022, the profits are going to be even higher.
This happens when you chew Russian propaganda all day and forget about the context, clearly stated in every article.
So Gazprom made a huuuuuge profit of close to $21 billion in 2021, and this was a surprise because?
The company, which reported a net profit of 1.456 trillion rubles ($23 billion) for 2018, has been going through an unprecedented management reshuffle.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gazprom-results-idUSKCN1S51DUSo despite record gas prices, it was a worse year than a year we didn't have covid, can you now use your magical armchair general mega economist prediction skills and explain how the profit sank even with those x15 prices? As for the 10 countries that have accepted to pay in rubles, I wonder if anybody can actually prove that, unless we're talking about Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Chechnya, and so on. Maybe we would have to add even Bartovia to reach 10.