Crisis, what crisis?

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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Head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Kudrin in the last days of the year gone by noted that inflation in Russia remains at a level higher than 13%, while in the year 2009 devaluation will give rise to additional inflation, i.e. the tempos of inflation will grow.

This signifies that all imported goods will go up in price. Medicines, clothing, food products, household and electronic appliances, automobiles… Inflation in Russia will grow. Fall in the USA, but grow in Russia. An acquaintance arrived from the USa and says: there a liter of gasoline costs half as much as in Russia. This too – a feature of the Putinite economy. This is a crisis that will affect everybody. The reasons for its arising, in general, are understandable. The ways to cure it – also. But only in Russia do they do everything their way, that is, stupidly and to the detriment of the majority.