The Russian economy (catch all)

[OUTLAW 09]

This doesn't surprise one, davidbfpo. Good stuff as usual kaur. Outlaw, a Russian rating agency will indeed carry little weight as most will (rightly) assume that it is, if not controlled, heavily influenced by Russia's leader.

In Slawjansk herrscht Terror is an German article by a German Russian translator with ties to Slawjansk.



It talks about the terror spread by the speratist gunmen, some with criminal backgrounds like in Crimea, influenced by Moscow and it's crimes against civilians. A main target of it's criticism is the language used in main-stream German media which doesn't call the terrorists terrorists but pro-Russian activists.

Nothing new and surprising there. People were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the former regime supported by Russia, people were kidnapped, tortured and sometimes murdered in Russian-controlled Crimea and people get kidnapped, tortured and murderd by terrorists supported by Russia in Eastern Ukraine. Almost business as usual.

We will see how which results this terrorist campaign waged by Putins minions will give in the long run.

Firn---IMF stated today as released by Interfax;

1. Russia is in a recession
2. capital outflow has hit the over 100B USD up in the last two weeks from 65B
3. GDP is estimated at right now .02% and sinking to potentially zero or lower if that is technically possible

Also notice not a single reverse sanction coming our of Moscow simply because they have not a single pressure point outside of US businesses doing business in the energy sectors---which Russia needs their actual help on so again no pressure points---so much for a superpower wantabe.

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukra...ts-345701.html