MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia's current economic difficulties could last for the next two years but the situation could improve faster.
He told his annual end-of-year news conference that the central bank would not waste foreign reserves propping up the rouble, but that the current interest rate level would not last for the whole of the economic crisis.
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