The Russian economy (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

This thread was requested to cover the position of the Russian economy and its international transactions. A large number of posts have been removed from the Ukraine thread.

As will be clear the Russian economy is fragile, largely due to the dependence on gas & oil and to a lesser extent gold exports.

There are a number of current, seperate threads on Russia covering politics, the military, terrorism, politics & power and more.