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Time To Get Back In Russia?

1290881?profile=RESIZE_320x3201290903?profile=RESIZE_480x480As the old saying goes, 'buy' when stocks are hated and there's blood in the streets but for the Russian market, one might want to sit on their hands before buying the Russian ETF RSX until Mr. Putin becomes more "market friendly".

It would seem Putin’s dream of making Russia one of the world’s five biggest economies by 2020 is now in ruins, according to Sergei Guriev, a former economic adviser to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev who fled to Paris last year. He says it could have been achieved had Putin focused on delivering economic growth of 5 percent to 6 percent as promised.

“Russia had such a massive potential because of its inefficiencies that it was perfectly feasible to achieve this rate of economic growth,” said Guriev. “What changed is that the government decided not to fulfill its promises.”

1290930?profile=RESIZE_320x320According to Bloomberg The sentiment was different in 2000, when Putin replaced Boris Yeltsin. One of his early acts was to close Russia’s radar base in Cuba, the only intelligence-gath

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