Comments by "knopkaplay" (@knopkaplay0507) on "Russian Economy is Soaring - The Economist's Claim" video.

Jeezus, you are prolific...yes, let's compare the Economist with numbeo :-)
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Wait... Free government food at public events? Where do I sign up?
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@peterwulff469 you'd be surprised! I bet if Americans ever do a DNA test of their pet Frenchie population, they would discover that the vast majority of those (again, talking about pets, not breeding stock) come from Russia. Simple economics - a pet-quality Frenchie is $500-700 in Russia, and at least $2500 in New York. You do lose some in transit, but that's another story. Can't provide similar stats on wrestlers OR mail order brides (this latter category is probably on the decline nowadays), but I'd argue their economic impact is more significant than that of Ural motorcycles or Lada Nivas -... he said humorlessly.
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@peterwulff469 they also export wheat (a grain), Raman spectrometers (a type of scientific equipment), pork (a kind of meat), Vostok, slava, and Raketa (a kind of watch), Kamov and mil (a kind of helicopter), rockwool and drywall (a kind of insulating material), borzoi and French bulldogs (kinds of dogs), wrestlers (kinds of athletes), engineers and scientists (kinds of people), rocket engines (kind of metal things that make spaceships move), nuclear technologies, materials, and equipment (a kind of tech that not too many countries have mastered). But yeah, other than that - vodka and mail order brides, primarily.
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@cosmonaut9942 excellent question! Do you think it's true? As a personal anecdote, in my family about 30 percent of households/domiciles that we own or live in do not have connection to central sewer system. These are all summer houses, effluent discharges into a septic tank, and my niece stays at a dorm with shared bathrooms.
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@andriidubinin955 it's okay with me, I'm a recently converted vegetarian. So, pearl barley, huh?
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@EconLessons we do have freedom of plumbing!
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