 On October 9, Russia, which was also suffering from a bad harvest, appealed for international humanitarian aid, including food.Russia bounced back from the August 1998 financial crash with surprising speed.Much of the reason for the recovery is that world oil prices rapidly rose during 1999–2000 (just as falling energy prices on the world market had deepened Russia's financial troubles) so that Russia ran a large trade surplus in 1999 and 2000.