Alexeev, Michael (contributor); Weber, Shlomo (contributor) - Oxford University Press
By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings …. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and … times. Russia continues to suffer from a distorted economic structure, with its low labor productivity, heavy reliance on …