Putin Says Russia’s Economic Slowdown Caused by Domestic Factors
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country’s economic slowdown is being caused by domestic reasons rather than a spillover from a global downturn.
“Of course we are experiencing the consequences of the global crisis, but we have to say openly: the main reasons for the slowdown aren’t external but domestic,” Putin said today in Moscow in his annual state of the nation speech.