Economics
Putin's Economic Might Is Withering Away
- Gloom spreads as recession's grip shows no signs of waning
- Russia seen losing ground among world's biggest economies
Russia's Vladimir Putin: Charlie Rose
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Anatoly Anisimov is still wistful about the cow barn he’d planned to build. With the latest Swedish milking machines, it would have cut his costs and boosted by 40 percent the size of the herd at the state-owned farm that he runs outside Moscow.
"It would have been nice for the animals," he says.