Imports plunged almost 20 on falling Commodity Prices and week domestic demand. Hello. Welcome to countdown. Also coming up today, australias Prime Minister with a threat to his leadership. Will it be tougher for tony abbott to address his countrys weakest economy in a generation . We start with our bloomberg exclusive this morning. The governor of the central bank of russia has told this channel that russia will not inflate its way out of the financial crisis. In her first ever interview with an International Broadcaster, Elvira Nabiullina told Ryan Chilcote the bank is unlikely to reverse last months surprise rate cut. Inflation is set to slow, having accelerated its fastest in almost seven years. Ryan is here now. Fascinating conversation. We started with the ruble. I asked if one of the worlds worst performing currencys last year, if we can expect more collapses. There is talk of that. She said, no. Have a listen. We are not expecting any massive decrease in the rubles Exchange Rat
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The Eu Association agreement. Today, it looks like nonsense. Ridiculous. He did not actually refuse to sign the agreement. All he said was, we have analyzed this thoroughly, and it seems like it would not serve our national interest. Forannot raise fuel prices our Common People drastically because people are in a difference a difficult situation. We cant do this. We cant do that. We cant sever our economic ties with russia because we are closely integrated with russia. At 7. 5aid earlier, exports, itheir think 5 billion worth of it goes to russia. They producenery goes to russia. Nothing goes to the west. If they now sever those ties and introduce western technical standards in ukraine that we dont use in russia sometimes russia will use those standards, as well, that we havent done economic tieseans will be broken. There will be unemployment. Factories will shut down. He did not refuse to sign the agreement. He just said, we need some more time to consider this document before we sign