Soviet Russia's farm sector had sunk to such depths that a traditional grain exporter was now importing grain from Australia and America.

前苏联的农业从一个传统粮食出口国沦落为现在依靠从澳大利亚和美国进口粮食。

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Soviet oil production, the most strategic sector of the civilian economy, is declining which bodes ill for meeting the rigid requirements of the domestic economy, Eastern Europe, and the crucial hard currency export market.

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By the 1980s the state gas sector that ran the operation was controlled by a classic Soviet functionary, Victor Chernomyrdin, and he held on tight to his post until 1992, a year after Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected leader of Russia.

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Russia allowed foreign companies into its energy sector to help it with extraction technology in the post-Soviet era.

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