While sanctions will depress Russia's economic performance, they are unlikely to go to an extreme that causes its economic collapse.
Its economy is sputtering and its young people are frustrated, but with America and Europe in tumult, Russia and its leader of two decades are on a roll.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/world/europe/russia-putin.html
OPINION. Tandis que la Russie couvre déjà environ 62 % de notre dépendance pa...
SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The Russian assassin used an alias, Sergei Fedotov, and slipped into Bulgaria unnoticed, checking into a hotel in Sofia near the office of a local arms manufacturer who had been selling ammunition to Ukraine.He led a team of three men.Within days, one man sneaked into a locked parking
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