Russian president Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical ambitions are crashing into the reality of economics and globalisation. The renewed plunge in oil prices is again combining with western sanctions imposed over Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine to strangle the Russian economy. With the rouble tumbling, threatening Russia with a second year of recession, the crisis is at least as severe as during the first big decline in oil prices in late 2014.
俄羅斯總統(tǒng)弗拉基米爾?普京(Vladimir Putin)的地緣政治抱負(fù)撞上了經(jīng)濟(jì)和全球化的現(xiàn)實(shí)。油價(jià)再次暴跌,再加上西方因俄羅斯武裝干預(yù)烏克蘭而施加的制裁,又一次掐住了俄羅斯經(jīng)濟(jì)的喉嚨。在盧布暴跌可能導(dǎo)致俄羅斯連續(xù)第二年陷入衰退之際,俄羅斯現(xiàn)在的危機(jī)至少和2014年末油價(jià)首次大幅下挫期間一樣嚴(yán)重。