Sentence examples for russian collapse from inspiring English sources

Before the Russian collapse, Ukraine looked as though it might just escape a balance-of-payments crunch, thanks to a loan of $2.2 billion from the IMF.

Germany refused to negotiate over Alsace-Lorraine, and, seeing a Russian collapse on the horizon, was loath to give up the war.

A Europe of empires – Ottoman, Hapsburg, Russian – collapsed and a new German empire was foiled.

Most bank stocks are lower than they were during the 1998 scare over Asian and Russian collapses.

The Russians' collapse was baffling.

The country continued to suffer from the repercussions of the Russian financial collapse of August 1998.

He cemented it with forceful interest-rate cuts in 1998, after the Russian financial collapse.

The Mariinsky receives little government funding and it lost virtually all its foreign-exchange earnings (from record sales and foreign tours) in last year's Russian banking collapse.

After the Asian crisis in 1997 and the Russian market collapse in 1998, the notion that such flows were an unquestioned good began to be challenged.

In the Russian financial collapse of 1998, the value of its investment assets was estimated by the company to have plunged to $125 million, but it recovered over the past decade, reaching a peak of more than $4 billion.

Ever since the Russian financial collapse of 1998, the stream of Belarussians coming to Poland to barter vodka for western goods has also dried up, costing many informal jobs on the Polish side.In any event, the idea of a hermetically sealed border is probably unrealistic.