Once upon a time there was a country the largest in the world in fact it was an empire it was called soviet union shortly before it seventieth birthday it vanished from the map. It was. Just a ship the ship is a shape with a good shape your religious good to the state over here. The soviet union had been strongly dependent on Commodity Prices but russia in the two thousand was even more so two thirds of russias exports were generated by the oil and natural gas sector. Economically russias economy is a model economy it depends entirely on oil prices everyone just trades new Petroleum Products when the prices are high but if they drop the russian economy has a real problem this is very bad economics looks like and im going. To draw its neighboring countries back into its sphere of influence russia sold them or oil and natural gas at knock down prices. Small gifts sustain friendships big ones create dependency. Overseas to come on the book russia uses the economy to apply political pressu