Russia continues to effectively circumvent its sanctions. It exploits existing legal gaps and 3rd countries and cryptocurrency for this purpose. Her shadow float delivers oil, bringing revenue. Microprocessors and parts for aircraft shall be imported or smuggled. European companies, and especially German ones, export to Russia, despite the ban, components for its military sector - from trucks, night imagination goggles, to steel constructions, and its soldiers walk in shoes made thanks to the supplies of glue and leather. The Russian economy remains on the surface through enhanced economical relations with the countries of Asia and the mediate East. Double-use goods passing through its territory are besides stolen.
