The ERA noted that the nation’s losses could amount to 40 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Key risks include losing preferential access to EAEU markets, losing advantages in labor migration, and abandoning common technical regulations and sanitary and phytosanitary measures.

The ERA’s release also included a rise in energy prices to reach global levels, and a decline in remittances from Russia.

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