getting closer to it ... big drop in oil price the last couple...

getting closer to it ... big drop in oil price the last couple of days making a good bit of russian oil production uneconomic
more debt
more gold sales
the only growth industry in russia at present is munitions - all the oligarchs will be making a bit off that as they are needing to produce a lot now their reserves have been used up ...but of course no export roubles/dollars for russia from that , all goes up in smoke

Russia is half way down the slope and sliding fast but not at the bottom yet , be patient , remember what killed the USSR - economics !