Russia: tighter US sanctions would have limited impact

Legislation passed by the US Senate to tighten the sanctions regime on Russia provides further reason to think that medium-term growth in Russia will be extremely weak. But the near-term economic repercussions are likely to be limited and, as things stand, we see no reason to change our growth forecasts for 2017-19 which are currently above consensus.

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