littco
Russia was almost untouched by the Great Depression because they had excluded themselves from the western markets and the capitalist sytem, AND they were already on the floor.
This time around, they have come to the party. I don't know how significant the impact is, but they are most definitely at the party. Its in our interests that they don't go down the pan, so to speak, as economic upheavals spreads into political extremism, a complication we can well do without in Russia.