For most countries, the economic slowdown in China and the accompanying slump in commodity prices represent something between nuisance and pothole. For Russia, they are a catastrophe.
Wall Street Journal: For Russia, oil collapse has Soviet echoes
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (2nd L) visits a refinery of Russian oil giant Rosneft in the Black Sea port of Tuapse in southern Russia, on Oct. 11, 2013, with Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin (L) attending.
