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Of course, the effects of war are still felt in Russia’s most affluent locations. For example, the massive emigration of 2022 and the growing number of people mobilized to military service has ...
Meanwhile, other analysts have predicted that the Russian economy can't sustain Putin’s war on Ukraine past next year as the ability to replace battlefield losses with Cold War weapons runs out.
Putin boasts of Russia’s record-low 2.3% unemployment rate, but this sword is double-edged. Low unemployment means higher wages, as Russian companies – short of 1.6 million skilled workers ...
Now 575 days into his war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has halted virtually all exports of gasoline and diesel out of the country to lessen the pain for average Russians and protect the nation's ...
Putinism (Russian: путинизм, romanized: putinizm) is the social, political, and economic system of Russia formed during the political leadership of Vladimir Putin.It is characterized by the concentration of political and financial powers in the hands of "siloviks", current and former "people with shoulder marks", coming from a total of 22 governmental enforcement agencies, the majority ...
Moscow's war machine includes a popular TV talk show whose host, Dmitry Kiselyov, takes on anyone who contradicts Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The conflict spurred wave of anti-American sentiments in Russia. According to Putin, the war was directly related to presidential elections in the US. [78] The official Russian position was that the US and its allies deliberately armed Georgia. [79] Some Russian officials called the war a genocide, accusing the US of supporting such inhumane ...
In his 2008 book, the Russian political commentator, retired KGB lieutenant-general Nikolai Leonov, noted that Putin's program article was barely noticed then and never revisited later—a fact that Leonov regretted, because "its content is most important for contrasting against his [Putin's] subsequent actions" and thus figuring out Putin's ...