By Ben Aris in Berlin Of all Russia’s sectors hurt by Western sanctions none were wounded as badly as the car market. Within a month of the sanctions being imposed the output of the industry that had been churning out over amn vehicles a year, fell to a mere 3,500 cars produced in June 2022. During the boom years of the noughties, there had been a gold Russia as six of the world’s biggest manufacturers rushed into the burgeoning market. In the first half of 2008, Russia briefly overtook Germany as the biggest car market in Europe as production topped one million vehicles in the first half of t…