All western BS, Russia is collapsing, blah, blah...yeah right. West tried hard to attack Russian economy and collapse the ruble last year. Didn't work.
Do you really expect the biggest country in the world, country with endless natural resources to collapse under pressure of West?
Russia is turning East, in right direction towards booming economies and it is already paying off.
'Six months ago, the price of oil—the lifeblood of the Russian economy—began to crater, and U.S.-led sanctions, implemented in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in Ukraine, were biting. Russia’s currency, the ruble, buckled, and capital flight began to accelerate as rich but nervous Russians moved more and more money out of the country. It seemed plausible then to wonder: Could Vladimir Putin be losing his grip? Might economic pressure be enough to rein him in, or even lead to his downfall?
Today, the answer is becoming clear—and it’s not the one the West was hoping for. Not only is Putin still standing, but the Russian economy, against most expectations, is recovering. Its stock market is one of the best performing globally this year; the ruble, after losing nearly half its value against the dollar over the course of a year, is rebounding; interest rates have come down from their post-sanctions peak; the government is taking in more revenue than its own forecast expected; and foreign exchange reserves have risen nearly $10 billion from their post-crisis low.'
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/24/putin-was-right-be-confident-about-russias-economy-321934.html
