escaping Moscow's colonial grip in the 1990's, Romania has gone from average per capita income equal to only 10% the average European income to 80%

[Litwin]

At Davos, Romania's Foreign Minister Toiu Oana points out that since escaping Moscow's colonial grip in the 1990's, Romania has gone from average per capita income equal to only 10% the average European income to 80% . There is a reason why in Finnish verb "ryssiä" ( Muscovy ) , roughly meaning "to totally fail something".