Author of quotes: Mikhail Delyagin

But why we have abandoned the OPEC+? Because we have the market, and our oil were replaced by expensive American shale oil and quite expensive offshore Brazilian oil, which in General is also under US control. That is, low oil prices, for us it's just unpleasant, and for Americans - is very unpleasant. And given that the Saudis are their vassals, they long to play this game can't. Probably 1-2 weeks. <...> The reserves in the national welfare Fund to 10 trillion rubles, and the total reserves in the Federal budget of 13.5 trillion If the money is efficiently directed at the development of the Russian economy since 2004, we have completely no problems seen. But as a reserve "for emergencies" this is enough money for a few years, so no tantrums should not occur. Hysteria fanned by those people who were unhappy when in 1999 the then Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov turned the plane around over the Atlantic and did not go to the talks in the United States, knowing about the bombing in Yugoslavia. People cried that this reversal was worth us $ 15 billion. And now the same hysterical: Russia dared to defend their interests, and this for some is unacceptable.