I don’t actually need this review because i have an opportunity to spend a couple hours a day with this thing, but thanks anyway.
Good luck on the roads.
.... when it bought $3 billion worth of [Ukrainian Government] bonds at the end of 2013 Russia inserted a clause that stipulates that the total volume of Ukrainian state-guaranteed debt cannot exceed 60% of its annual GDP. ... Given the parlous state of the Ukrainian economy and its governments extremely weak finances, this essentially means that if Ukraines debt exceeds 60% of its GDP Russia can legally force it to default.
additionally and remarkably.....According to two people who attended the EU meeting, concern over Ukrainian finances has become so severe that Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, said he had called his Russian counterpart, Anton Siluanov, to ask him to roll over a $3bn loan the Kremlin made to Kiev last year.
George Osborne, the UK finance minister, expressed surprise at the request, attendees said, saying the EU was now asking for help from Russia at the same time it was sanctioning the Kremlin for its actions in Ukraine.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a3efede-7fc5-11e4-acf3-00144feabdc0.html