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Putin’s Military Spending Is Killing Economy, Vodka Will be Cheaper in 2015
International Business Times ^ | 31 Dec 14 | Athena Yenko

Posted on 01/06/2015 6:50:44 AM PST by elhombrelibre

Russian President Vladimir Putin's excessive military spending is killing Russia's economy. Days before 2015, analysts were already one in warning that Russia would not be able to paddle through 2016-2017.

Mr Putin's ostentatious military spending, as well as generous social benefits, dominated Russia's expenditure in 2014. Mr Putin had reportedly spending too much in military even before Russia's annexation of Crimea in March. Thirty-three percent of the country's 13.96 trillion roubles were spent in social benefits while 32.5 percent were spent in defence and security.

"Without cutting military spending and raising the pension age, we won't muddle through," an unnamed government insider told Reuters. The only options left for Russia is to raise taxes and print money, "which triggers a downward spiral of inflation and higher interests rates," the source explained.

(Excerpt) Read more at au.ibtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: ruble; russiaeconomy

1 posted on 01/06/2015 6:50:44 AM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

Putin is not going to relent.

Its best to keep in mind a weak bear is still a dangerous bear.


2 posted on 01/06/2015 7:11:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Yet another reason for you to be his cheer leader.


3 posted on 01/06/2015 8:05:12 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Huh?

You have an active imagination.

All I observed was that Russia, however weakened still remains a formidable adversary.

How is pointing it out cheerleading Putin?

And we’re the country that is the one slashing military spending.

If you have nothing to say about it, are you being a cheer leader for Obama?


4 posted on 01/06/2015 8:14:25 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

You’re always, always popping up to praise Putin and claim he’s soooo great. If this were the first or only time, if your comment were in isolation, I’d think your reply makes some sense. But you and I know that you’re a big fan of Putin’s.


5 posted on 01/06/2015 8:23:13 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

I respect an adversary.

This is not the same as saying I’m in love with him.

You read into my comments things that simply aren’t there.


6 posted on 01/06/2015 8:27:51 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: elhombrelibre

He’s going to get very desperate, soon. Food is getting scarce. He’s going to have to make something happen. “Glorious Motherland” stuff.


7 posted on 01/06/2015 8:33:45 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: ryan71

I expect him to get tough on any critics.


8 posted on 01/06/2015 9:36:59 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: goldstategop
Here is some information on the adversary you respect.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/05/putin_condemned.html

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/11/journalist-safety-vladimir-putin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902604.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11212072/Russian-actor-and-Putin-critic-found-dead-in-Moscow.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi5-believe-vladimir-putin-behind-3897973

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/dec/18/observer-editorial-putin-russia-journalists-murdered

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/07/16/open-letter-to-russias-putin-on-tenth-anniversary-of-forbes-editor-paul-klebnikovs-murder-why-havent-you-solved-this-case/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10728908/Billionaire-critic-of-Putin-may-have-been-murdered-rules-coroner.html http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Labyrinth-Spies-Murder-Russia/dp/0812978412

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/22/brits-investigate-the-assassination-of-the-spy-who-warned-us-about-putin.html#

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/malaysia-airlines-flight-father-letter_n_5607856.html

http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2014/07/13/19336.shtml

November 1998 - Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg.

April 2003 - Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block. Yushenkov had been serving as the vice chair of the group known as the “Kovalev Commission” which was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin’s KGB had planted the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombs

July 2003 - Yuri Shchekochikhin , a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Dumaand the Kovalev Commission, suddenly contracts a mysterious illness. After his sudden death on July 3rd. The Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy, his relatives “managed to send a specimen of his skin to London, where a tentative diagnosis was made of poisoning with thallium” (a poison commonly used by the KGB, at first suspected in the Litvinenko killing).

June 2004 - Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, Professor of Ethnology and expert on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation is shot dead in his home in St Petersburg.

July 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow.

September 2004 - Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko’s chief of staff OlegRibachuk suggests that the poison used was amycotoxin called T-2, also known as “Yellow Rain,” a Soviet-era substance which was reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon. Miraculously, he survives the attack.

September 2006 - Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and killed in Moscow.

October 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow.

November 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki andKashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

On January 19, 2009, Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and killed was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

On July 14, 2009, leading Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova , a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/ Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3dd_1401997313#XRRREys6DwG6l1tA.99

9 posted on 01/06/2015 9:46:22 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: goldstategop

So? What is your point, that we submit because a weak hostile nation is still a weak hostile nation?

Submit in advance to who, why, what is your rush to surrender to someone?


10 posted on 01/06/2015 10:08:57 AM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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