Russians today are chagrined to learn that they are worse off than Romanians and Turks. Although President Vladimir Putin would like them to think that their country has been the victim of “outside forces” such as declining oil prices, no one has done more to hurt their living standards than he has.
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Anders Aslund: Russia’s bear economy
A woman begs inside of an underground passage in central Moscow on April 5, 2019.
