{"id":92080,"date":"2026-07-19T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92080"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:48:40","slug":"russians-turn-to-cash-putting-more-strain-on-slowing-wartime-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/19\/russians-turn-to-cash-putting-more-strain-on-slowing-wartime-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians turn to cash, putting more strain on slowing wartime economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/c416\/live\/685838d0-81b2-11f1-bc34-d11e2a8fe857.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a red jumper and sunglasses, as well as a little bag on her right shoulder, talks on the phone in front of an exterior view of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation building on top of which the Russian flag can be seen\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Russians are returning to cash, as mobile internet shutdowns disrupt card payments, and more businesses seek to dodge tax under mounting financial pressure more than four years into the war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cglj255jk8ko\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Russians are returning to cash, as mobile internet shutdowns disrupt card payments, and more businesses seek to dodge tax under mounting financial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/putin-worried-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92081,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92080\/revisions\/92081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}