Latest news conference: A first short analysis globinfo freexchange “ ... we proceed from the view that we have failed to achieve many of the things that were planned and that needed to be done to diversify the economy over the past 20 years. This was not easy, if at all possible, given the foreign economic situation, which was favourable in the sense that businesses were investing into areas that guaranteed maximum and fast profits. This mechanism is not easy to change.” It's quite clear that Putin refers to the financialization of the economy, started from the West the last four decades, and his intentions to reverse this situation and probably decouple Russian economy from this financial speculative economic model. However, Putin acknowledges that this model is not easy to be changed because it has been expanded quite fast in nearly every part of the world, including Russia. “ Could oil prices continue falling and