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Putin: West wants to defang, declaw Russian bear
Putin voices confidence ruble will recover, accuses West of trying to corner Russia …read more Source:...
Poll: 81 per cent back Putin even as ruble falls
AP-NORC Poll: 81 per cent of Russians back Putin even as ruble falls and economic woes grow …read more Source:...
Worrying About China
If there is one thing various experts and pundits like to do most it is to worry about all manner of speculative threats. I can recall when much of their focus was on the Soviet Union until 1991 when it collapsed along with the decline in the cost of oil. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled that it was no longer the feared power it had...
Putin accuses West of trying to corner Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin vows to fix Russia’s economic woes within two years, voicing confidence that the plummeting ruble will recover and promising to diversify Russia’s gas-dependent economy. …read more Source:...
Father Raymond J. de Souza: Russia’s economic collapse offers the West a chance to rein the country in
How will editors in the Russian press craft their year-end stories? Will they lead with a burst of nationalism, celebrating the extravagant Sochi Olympics and the violent annexation of Crimea from Ukraine? Or are they still reeling from Monday’s collapse of the ruble, which has lost 50% of its value this year against the U.S. dollar?...
Vladimir Putin: Ukraine must remain 1 entity
Russian President Vladimir Putin is voicing hope that the crisis in Ukraine could be solved through peace talks. …read more Source:...
Western sanctions partly to blame for Russian economic crisis: Putin
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Western sanctions have been an important factor in the current economic crisis, but not the only one. Putin said Thursday the influence of Western sanctions acounts roughly for 25 to 30 per cent of factors behind the Russian crisis. He accused the West of trying to infringe on Russia’s...
Western sanctions may last for decades, Russian minister says
Russia’s economy is heading for recession, dragged lower by sanctions imposed by the West over Ukraine and weak oil prices, a cornerstone of state revenues …read more Source: The Globe and...
Putin backed by 80 per cent of Russians despite sinking ruble, economic woes: poll
From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin’s days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah. And yet most Russians see Putin not as the cause, but as the solution. …read more Source:...
Want to hurt Putin now? Lift the sanctions.
As Russia’s economic crisis deepens, hurting trading partners from Germany to Tajikistan, many will say Westerns sanctions have succeeded. It’s a classic stone soup — or, in the Russian tradition, axe cereal — story. In this folktale, a wayfarer, usually a soldier, tricks a stingy host by saying he knows how to make a meal out of some...
