Russia’s economy is hit by low oil prices
Today Russia announced that its economy shrank by 3.8 percent for all of 2015. The country has been hit hard by the fall in oil prices over the past year. Oleg Boldyrev is the BBC’s correspondent in Moscow, listen to our interview with him in the audio player above.
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