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The word “crisis” is reserved to Ukraine, not Russia. In three hours and twenty minutes conference in front of more than a thousand Russian and foreign journalists gathered Thursday, Dec. 18, Putin put out the word “crisis”, preferring the expression of “difficult situation” to describe the woes of his country economically. Speaking for the first times forty-eight hours after the plunge of the ruble, which sowed panic in Moscow in early crossing, Tuesday 16 December, for a few hours the bearing 100 rubles for 1 euro, the head of the Kremlin everything to try to reassure the population. At worst, he has launched the outset in his introduction, it will last two years
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“In the worst case scenario for the global economy, the situation can last two years, but it can be corrected before ‘, said Putin aligning jumble few numbers: 0, 6% growth in 2014; $ 148.4 billion trade surplus; 5% unemployment; not to mention the billions of reserves available to the Russian central bank and the government.
“Why am I optimistic? Because the economy still fits “, he was chained. Just over three hours later, the president concluded his speech in the same terms: “Inevitably our economy will recover. “ The fall in oil prices will not last, and Russia will benefit from the global recovery. In other words, as had before him the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, patience is the best advice that can deliver the Russians.
A bear who are try “to pull the fangs and claws”
For Vladimir Putin does not intend to change its policy or its way of seeing things. “Our partners [US] decided they were the victors, they were now an empire and the others were vassals need to march. “” The problem , he added, not the Crimea is that we defend our independence, our sovereignty and right to existence. “ Sometimes shaken by the questions, Putin returned claws to the metaphor of the bear, he has long emphasized, a Russian bear to whom we would try, he said, “to pull the fangs and claws, that is to say the nuclear deterrent forces (…) to, as soon as you no longer need it, make a stuffed bear” .
No solution has been advanced to pull Russia out of the economic doldrums in which it is diving but Putin promised to promote the business climate and investment. And to do this, he live cleared billionaire Vladimir Evtouckenko, owner of AFK Systema, accused of money laundering and just out of his house arrest. The Bachneft case, the name of the oil company owned by the oligarch, which was used to launch the charges for money laundering, has nothing to do with a questioning of privatization, further assured President Putin – although since she returned to the bosom of the state. “I will soon meet with the business community, and will be invited Yevtushenko” he has promised.
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