KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin faced difficult questions from the media at his annual marathon press conference Thursday in Moscow amid the country’s worst economic crisis since the 1998 default.
European and U.S. sanctions against Russia over Putin’s invasion and annexation of Crimea, and his political and military support to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine — along with the plunging price of oil — have thrust Russia’s economy into a downward spiral
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Source: Mashable
