MOSCOW - The Russian economy will slide next year into its first recession since the global financial crisis and inflation will be close to double digits, economists forecast in a Reuters poll, as the oil price crash and Western sanctions bite.
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Reuters: Russia in recession in 2015, ruble to stay pressured – poll
A woman speaks on her mobile phone next to a screen displaying Sberbank's, the largest state-owned bank in Russia, shares quotation in Moscow on Dec. 16, 2014.
