Russian economy declining - Russian economic growth has gone into neutral. The situation has declined so greatly that the most pessimistic observers now fear a return to the 2008-2009 scenario, when the global crisis and the fall in oil prices led Russia right into a slump. Growth - which in 2012 had fallen to 3.4% - stalled at the beginning of 2013 and in the first quarter reached 1.1% year on year, thanks only to an unexpected recovery in March. Industrial production has contracted for the...