[adorno]

Russia TOTALLY KICKED ASS economically, when you guys promised a ‘collapse’.

Russia is still a third-world economy, and no amount of denial is going to change that fact.

Russia may be kicking ass, but it's their own asses they're kicking for being so stupid. You can join them in their stupidity and go kick your own ass. ;)

Relying on the world bank is ridiculous; it's like accepting what the WHO says about infectious diseases; totally dumb.

And, who submits economic data to the world bank? If they depend on data submitted by Russia in order to arrive at economic data, then you know it's a complete farce. It's like when China was reportedly growing at 10% per year for many years, and then later, it was all a lie when it became clear that it was all data submitted by China and not really corroborated by outside sources.

[BobL]

“Russia is still a third-world economy, and no amount of denial is going to change that fact.”

I guess your guys also didn’t feed you the news from last week, when the World Bank also declared that Russia is a “High Income” country, meaning First World.

But that’s ok, the Russians JUST LOVE IT when the West lives in their own fantasy world...makes everything a cakewalk for them.