Russian economic woes predate the steady decline in oil prices and sanctions triggered by crises in Ukraine, a Russian minister said Friday from Switzerland. Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said from the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos the Russian economy never fully emerged from the economic crises that ensnared the global economy in 2008-09. “We briskly started to lose our rate of growth and it became clear that a structural crisis was looming,” he said. Analysis from the World Bank in December finds the Russian economy will face difficulties through 2016 because of the decline in global oil prices. A January report from the International Monetary Fund said the Russian economy should shrink by 3 percent this year. […]