MOSCOW An elderly man wearing a T-shirt with USSR symbolics walks along a market in Moscow on June 10, 2025. After three years of doom-defying growth, Russia 's heavily militarized economy is slowing, facing a widening budget deficit and weak oil prices, all under the threat of more Western sanctions. Huge spending on guns, tanks, drones, missiles and soldiers for the Ukraine campaign helped ensure Moscow bucked predictions of economic collapse after it launched its offensive in 2022. But as