MOSCOW: Russia looks increasingly likely to sink into recession in 2014 as the knock-on effects of its standoff with the West over Ukraine hurt an economy already beset by structural problems.

Data released over the last week showed that Russian is beginning to suffer the effects of the worst East-West political crisis since the Cold War.

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