I for one do not believe in headlines as these are not written by the writers of the articles, but by others who may have a different agenda.

With respect to the article on Russia "Kremlin warns of collapse", I prefer to look at the chart of the Moscow Times stock index. Although it's under-performing the Dow recently, it is having a solid run. Apparently concerns over economic slowdown and of prosecution by certain authorities in Russia are similar to what is happening elsewhere in the world today.