Dutch disease,’ a growth of the ruble’s exchange rate and declining competitiveness of national manufacturers, in which import substitution becomes practically impossible and a country becomes dependent on the fluctuation of prices for its export items;
– imports of commodities prove to be more lucrative than imports of capital (technologies), while a strengthening ruble demands an ever greater inflow of foreign currency for solving investment tasks;
– structural shifts tend to be destimulated, i.e. the economic structure begins to degrade, risking to follow the plight that befell the Soviet Union, in which the economic system, based on high oil prices, collapsed after the oil market’s downturn