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Originally Posted by
CLazarus
Bingo. Enough articles about there about the increased difficulties the Russian economy is facing. The flipside is we've heard these warnings for years. But the reality was the Russian economy shrugged the difficulties off for the couple of years but the current difficulties might be signaling the start of bigger problems.
While one might hope that is the case, the GDP per capita is still hanging right in there according to the World Bank.
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And, to some extent, the increased global oil prices is probably helping them out currently, as lots If countries struggle to get oil wherever they can.