So, around how much of a reduction / disruption in supply would this cause?
Is Russia on the Verge of Collapse?
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000
Snarled in a controversy over the cause of the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk, its threadbare military establishment with its physically deteriorating nuclear-powered ships and weapons threatening to create further disasters, and its political leadership stumbling from crisis to crisis, Russia shows all the signs of a nation tottering on the brink of a complete collapse.
Further speculation that Russia is on a collision course with disintegration was strengthened by the release of a shocking new study by a prestigious foreign research group, which asks "How Great are the Risks for a Socioeconomic Collapse in Russia? An Inventory of Russian Problem Areas" and presents a dismal picture of life in the former Soviet Union.
If the report’s gloomy possibilities become realities, Russia could face a future of mass famine, nationwide power blackouts, out-of-control unemployment, more Chernobyl-type disasters, breakup of the nation into small independent provinces and possible civil war between them, mass migrations into neighboring countries and total financial collapse.(cont)
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