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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:47 PM Jul 2015

Putin: Russia And China Can Overcome Any Difficulty Together

UFA, Russia (AP) -- Welcoming China's leader to two summits in the Russian city of Ufa, President Vladimir Putin says Russia and China can overcome their countries' difficulties by working together.

Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping both arrived Wednesday for summits of the BRICS trade group and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The summits, held 1,170 kilometers (725 miles) east of Moscow, come as the Russian and Chinese economies are undergoing major strains. Russia's economy has contracted and its currency has sunk due to the fall in world oil prices and Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. China, after a yearslong bull market, has seen its benchmark stock index drop some 30 percent in the past month.

Putin said "combining efforts, no doubt we will overcome all the problems before us."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_SUMMITS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-07-08-11-25-50

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Putin: Russia And China Can Overcome Any Difficulty Together (Original Post) Purveyor Jul 2015 OP
Easy way to overcome the problems before you, Putin... NuclearDem Jul 2015 #1
 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
1. Easy way to overcome the problems before you, Putin...
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 12:51 PM
Jul 2015

...is to get the fuck out of Ukraine.

And Georgia too.

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