A little more than a year after “ Black Tuesday ,” when the ruble lost a quarter of its value in a day, the state of the Russian economy is still uncertain. During the past 12 months, gross domestic product declined 3.9 percent , less than many analysts anticipated a year ago, and the government managed to get inflation below 13 percent . But early official forecasts promising a return to growth by the third quarter of 2015 went unrealized, and subsequent projections of growth resuming later this year also look unrealistic. Both the international financial institutions and Russia’s economic ministry now agree that […]