Russia produced $3.61 billion in rough diamonds in 2023 and exported $3.68 billion, according to Kimberley Process data. No hard numbers are publicly available on where all of those goods ended up. Rapaport Senior Analyst Joshua Freedman tries to work it out based on the available information.
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