CSPAN2 Capital News Today October 13, 2011
your analysis is absolutely right. the coincidence of the rise of the oil prices the last ten years before 2008 and the rise of the russian economy that correlation is firm and that correlation goes back further you can see that the rise involved in the soviet union as well. russia did experience an economic crisis like the rest of the world in 2008 and in 2009 and that sparked a serious debate that continues to this day. i would oversimplify to say along the lines you just described which is some real lives just relying on the export of oil and gas isn't a future to the 21st century...
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