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Re:Russia raises key interest rate to 17% amid rouble decline by free652 on Monday December 15, 2014 @07:07PM (#8755247)
They will be fine. Russia isn't a bankrupt by a long shot, but it hurts them. It hurts businesses more, kinda what's the point of the sanctions. I think Putin will be gone and leader will come around. But Crimea isn't coming back to Ukraine - this part would actually cause a revolt in Russia.

Russian folks are full of patriotic ideas right now what I hear from family & friends. But obviously what people in the West don't hear that Ukraine is even in a bigger hole than Russia. Western countries should help out now.

Re:Russia raises key interest rate to 17% amid rouble decline by dchichkov on Monday December 15, 2014 @07:22PM (#8755292)
Well, there are similarities. Russia had collapsed the last time the prices on oil were released [1] during a slowdown of economy. And it was pretty scary, considered to be one of the times at which the world had come closest to a world nuclear war [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83