Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Mark Adomanis: Russia doesn’t need luck, just better policy
People look at the smoke rising in the cold air above the Red Square in Moscow, on January 31, 2014.
Russia is a mess right now. No, the current economic problems aren't as bad as the 2009 crisis, much less the crippling 1998 government debt default, but they're plenty bad on their own merits. Russian companies are almost totally isolated from the Western markets where they were accustomed to raising capital.
