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Russian oil

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  2017/06/29 - 10:16 • International, More

  Russia earned 3 trillion US dollars from petroleum and stashed abroad over...

  Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since Vladimir Putin came to power; but instead of using this money to increase the capitalization of these firms or to transform the economy,...

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  2017/04/27 - 10:16 • International, More

  A new “scissors crisis” in Russia: Oil prices up but GDP down

  Over the past year, the editors of Nezavisimaya gazeta point out, the price of oil has risen by 60 percent but Russia’s GDP and per capita incomes have continued to fall, a pattern at odds with what most expected and one that points to...

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  2017/02/14 - 10:32 • International, More

  Three Internet appeals from Eurasia with potential real world consequences

  The Internet can mobilize people around issues and this mobilization often takes the form of presenting declarations to foreign leaders or gathering signatures on petitions that allow those who are sometimes ignored to force themselves...

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  2016/11/18 - 09:44 • International, More

  World oil prices, Russian production both predicted to fall over the next...

  Just how disastrous Vladimir Putin’s decision to rely on the export of oil rather than to modernize and diversify the Russian economy is going to become ever more obvious in the coming years given that world prices of oil may fall to as...

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  2014/11/27 - 21:54 • International

  Oil vs. Putin. The price fall continues

  The economic sanctions the West imposed on the Russian Federation turned out to be not the only challenge to the weak budget of this country which unfolded a military campaign in Ukraine. Another, much more effective blow to the Russian...

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