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Originally Posted by Adux
I find it stupid that anyone will believe, that the Russian Government and Russian Oligarch's see money only in Oil and Gas.
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Yes, certainly.
This rather widespread false statement, together with the thesis " the Russian economy grows ONLY owing to the high prices for oil ", they can be heard often in the western mass-media.
On one of branches of this site someone already compared rates of growth of economy of Russia and Saudi Arabia for last 10 years. Saudi Arabia too a big exporter of oil, however owing to the high prices for oil its economy has not received such growth as in Russia. Hence, at economic growth of Russia there are also other factors, whether not so?