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President Vladimir Putin scored an F, the lowest possible, from 27% of respondents in a Bloomberg survey that invited them to assess his management of the economy in crisis.
An additional 50% gave him the next two poorest grades, with a single person saying the Russian leader deserved an A, the highest mark,according to Bloomberg.
The majority of the 22 economists in the poll rated the central bank a B, which was also the most common grade assigned to the Finance Ministry.
"All the economic miseries are amplified by international sanctions which were brought upon Russia by its foreign policy in Ukraine," said Nerijus Maciulis, chief economist at Swedbank AB in Vilnius, Lithuania.
"And the man who presumably orchestrated them deserves only an F," he said.
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