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loving the reduced gas prices but as these oil prices sink, it's having a dramatic impact on russia, right? >> absolutely. you have to think about russia like you think about a middle eastern oil state. it's a petra dictatorship really. this is an economy that perfectly tracks the rise and fall of oil. if you look at the fall since the summer, the ruble follows the falling oil prices and with 75% of russia's exports coming from oil, that won't change any time soon. as long as oil stays low, russia will be in trouble and putin's efforts to prop up the currency are really quite disastrous. they never work. and they tend to have an extremely negative effect on local populations, which are getting very worried about the state of the economy. >> here's what a lot of people don't understand. at this news conference it was obvious. he answered questions. spoke for three hours and ten minutes without a break. he answered 53 questions from