DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Russian stock market closed twice this week

  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    Where are those Bolsheviks when you need them? If I were Russian, I'd want my 'hammer and sickle' back again!
  • Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 1 year ago
    Real estate in the USA is cheap for the rich foreigners.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    KGB-trained Putin has proven himself far more adept at fascist authoritarianism than the dysfunctional Bush scion while having smaller man-boobs.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Russia has a growing middle class. Yes, so did the United States.
  • exhack · 1 year ago
    "Re-building an old and creaky military, funding a failing banking system, handling a stock market that has lost half of its value in a few months, flexing muscle and keeping the dream of Russia's return sounds less likely than it was a year ago."

    Sounds like what we're going to have to do.

    I love seeing my country reduced to a tottering Second World state in eight years. Thanks, W.