Fwd: Russia

'"Mikhail Gorbachev said at the beginning of the 80s that the greatest enemies of Soviet agriculture were spring, summer, fall and winter," says Marius Vacarelu, a Bucharest-based geopolitics expert. "[Jokes aside,] the cause of the Russian economy's weakness is not to be found in the international sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and the other states, but in around 70 years of technological backwardness created during communism."'

 

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