By Ben Aris in Berlin The positive economic news keeps coming for Russia after the World Bank upgraded it from an ‘upper-middle-income’ to a ‘high-income’ country, putting it in the same group as the leading G7 nations, the bank said on July 1. Russia’s economy has defied expectations by outperforming all expectations following the imposition of harsh economic sanctions that have been offset by heavy spending on the military industrial complex. The World Bank’s reclassification is based on the increase in the size of the economy based on its 2023 gross national income (GNI) per capita of $14,2…