Dec 2, 2014 ... Italy, Canada, and Australia are all more economically significant than Russia. ...  Russia has lost its ranking as the world's eighth biggest economy, shrinking in  just nine months from a $2.1 trillion petro-giant to a mid-size player comparable  with Korea or Spain. For the past several years, Spain has been ...
Russia diverts more of its GDP towards its military than Italy does. This is  because Russia has more land area than, more pressing security concerns,  nuclear...
Jan 13, 2017 ... Not since the end of the Cold War has Russia dominated U.S. headlines to the  degree we've seen during this election. According to U.S. intelligence ... Russia's  economy is roughly the size of Italy or Canada, and is dependent on oil revenues  to stay afloat, said Thoburn. Western countries, including the ...
Russia has an upper-middle income mixed economy with state ownership in  strategic areas of the economy. Market reforms in the 1990s privatized much of  Russian industry and agriculture, with notable exceptions to this privatization  occurring in the energy and defense-related sectors. Russia's vast geography is  an ...
Jul 10, 2014 ... Turns out California packed on some pretty good economic muscle last year,  generating the world's eighth biggest economy in terms of gross product,  according to a World Bank analysis. Last year California's gross state product of  goods and services totaled $2.2 trillion, up from $2 trillion in 2012. The state ...
Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."