t’s becoming more difficult to find good news for the Russian economy, an analyst said Friday after the national currency crashed to a new low. By midday in Moscow, the currency hit bottom with trade at 45.7 rubles to the U.S. dollar, besting the previous low by 8 percent. Dmitry Polevoy, a chief Russian analyst at ING, told Russian news agency ITAR-Tass there were few bright spots for the nation’s economy. “It is increasingly difficult to find augments to describe the current situation, when you look at market figures every morning,” he said. The Russian economy is burdened by Western sanctions targeting Russian energy companies. With oil trading below the $100 mark, sanctions were blamed for record inflation and a struggling ruble. A report this week from the European Commission […]