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by grumple 1071 days ago
600 billion in reserves, much of which they probably can't spend due to sanctions. 84 billion military budget. Sanctions have supposedly frozen about half of their reserves [0]. I expect the situation will continue to worsen for Russia though, in terms of revenues, expenditures, sanctions, and money going missing due to corruption.

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-reserv...