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Resurgent Russia Discharging Dollars

Just one comment.
"With neither a rising generation nor much immigration and rapid deaths the Russian population is disappearing."
"Russia is a regional powerhouse but disappearing because of demographic factors. "

Where did the author find this information?
Russian is the SECOND biggest immigrant's nation in the world!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Only America has more immigrants than Russia!
Besides, Russian Government recently passed a law that encourage birth rate by giving families significant financial and other perks, and some data indicates it started working.

Emerging Market Toxic Assets: The IMF Questions Russia

This is ridiculous: IMF "questions" Russia, the country that has HUGE budget surplus, no debts and one of the biggest currency and gold assets. Isn't it funny?
IMF would rather shut up and stay quiet!
Who are adviser there? American "experts" from rotten Wall St. financial institutions?
Did they "question" recent bubble, American budget deficit and melting inflated Wall St financial infrastructure?
All their "advices" borough Argentina to financial collapse and caused enormously tough times for Russia after USSR was collapsed.
China didn't listen to them and it didn't have any crises as Argentina, Russian, Ukraine and other nations that listened to IMF did!