Russia's chance

One of English Pravda's enigmatic group of opinion writers, Stanislav Mishin sees the economic crisis as Russia's big chance to finally assert dominance over the USA. As he writes at his blog:

"This Great Bank Panic is Russia's chance, a chance to stand on strength due to the wise prudence of Putin and Medvedev and Russia's firm financial base..."

But, as one US analyst notes, Russia has probably been worse hit than the US:

"You can now buy the free float of the entire Russian energy sector with the market cap of Coca-Cola, and still have change to buy all the Russian banks...''