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Nyet7/05/2014 4:31:28 pm PDT

The economic situation is bad enough, with Crimea now devouring quite a lot of resources. Consider this:

bloombergview.com

Russia’s finance minister has blurted out the truth about how Russia, faced with low economic growth and all but cut off from external financing, is funding the annexation of Crimea and the peninsula’s many emergencies: with $7.2 billion confiscated from Russians’ pensions.

Putin can’t afford a new military adventure only to grab small bits and pieces of two poor regions.