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Why Does Russia Want Trump? It’s All About Oil

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2016

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By Mark Sumner

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

Why does Trump want Russia? It’s all about money

Oil and natural gas aren’t just a part of Russia’s economy, they are the economy.  Up until 2014, oil accounted for 50 percent of revenue going into the budget. As long as oil and gas prices were high, Putin was able to float along, using oil profits to prop up the Russian economy and his own popularity. But as oil…

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