Copyrighted Image - Owner Name cannot be YouTube - you must say WHO on YouTube () Copyrighted Image? DMCA | adimir Putin is suddenly feeling the squeeze. The Russian president, earlier this year a swashbuckling land-grabber who seemed to confound the West, finds himself in a three-way economic vise -- tumbling oil prices, punishing sanctions and now a collapse in his country's currency. "He really is going to be hit by a perfect storm," said Andrew Kuchins, director of the Russia program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. "Although much of it is his own making." |