Russia’s fall back to earth, meanwhile, spawned a kind of parlor game among academics, foreign-policy wonks, and educated investors, aimed at replacing the country in the club of major emerging-market economies. A variety of acronyms has been suggested, from the cutesy BRICET (adding Eastern Europe and Turkey) to BRICKETs (the former plus South Korea) and – an even greater stretch – BRIMC, which shoehorns Mexico into the mix.
即使在过去6个月，商品价格有所回升，俄罗斯的能源产量近些年来还一直下滑，部分原因是害怕外资的介入。随着中央集权的进一步扩大，俄罗斯的主权财富基金正在濒临枯竭。如果一直这么下去的话，俄罗斯的外汇储备最终也会消耗殆尽。