Russia's Growth Was Already Slowing-Then Came Crimea

摘要

Elena Sokolova, who owns a cafe in downtown Moscow, says she's had enough of President Vladimir Putin's Russia and the arbitrary ways of the government. After the Russian leader seized Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, sparking the worst geopolitical standoff since the Cold War, she and her family applied for residency in Bulgaria, a member of the European Union. "I can't live without Russia-I love it," she says. "But I'm really frightened at what's going on in our country right now. Anything can happen to me or my business, so I need the chance to get out of here, maybe forever."