MOSCOW - Vowing that the West would never hold Russia down, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Dec. 18 promised that his nation’s troubled economy would recover in two years despite a looming recession, a severely weakened ruble and growing fears about economic instability.
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A man looks at a computer screen as he watches Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference, in a public library in Moscow on Dec. 18, 2014.
