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P.S. Brits can have them too, if they feel left out)))
I believe Dubai, Doha and Kuwait city, as well as New York skyline, look better. The Moscow skyline looks ok, but it does not the best places to be at that city.
I believe Dubai, Doha and Kuwait city, as well as New York skyline, look better. The Moscow skyline looks ok, but it does not the best places to be at that city.
Here, this month in my city. Pay attention to water cannons, police in armor, clouds of tear gas, and fiercely defending brave protesters. )
You live in some insignificant backwaters kind of place, that doesn't have any weight, (and which is wealthier than many other parts of the country,) so no one cares.
The action takes place usually in the bigger cities ( as I've said before Moscow - that's where politics matter, and that's where the authorities are on guard.)
And on and on it goes, so I have no idea what fairy-tales are you telling here.
Now.
When it comes to the SPECIFIC protests against the newest "pension reform" - I think the authorities are very weary about the whole situation, Putin including.
And as far as I know the protests are scheduled in Moscow on July 28th.
So we'll see what happens.
Yes, of course, corruption is a problem. But this system is stable. This system stopped the civil war and disintegration of the country, increased the territory, stabilized the demographic situation.
It did Maxim, it did. Kinda.
As long as oil price was high.
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A fight against corruption is not a matter of months or years. It's a matter of decades.
There can't be any "fight against corruption" in a society that's built on corruption. That's what oligarchy is all about.
I mean why the authorities would like to target the very foundation of their state?
They have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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I think that Putin is unlikely to be able to fight corruption.
No, because he is an inseparable part of it.
You know, the more I look at him, the more I think I understand that he is not the "source of the problem."
People behind him are much, much worse - all these Sechins, Patrushevs and the rest of so-called "elite."
He is just the *manager,* the *shop-window,* - whatever you want to call it. They like him, because he is much more worldly than them and understands a thing or two in international affairs.
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But it's not his fault, he's product of this system. Blame those who admitted destruction of the Red Machine in the late 80's and early 90's. They gave birth to this situation.
It's true.
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A fight against corruption is not a matter of months or years. It's a matter of decades.
It will take many decades to correct it.
Breaking is very easy. It's hard to build.
I am looking at this whole paradoxical situation we are in now ( with Russia being a *poor* country statistically on one hand, and all those billions that Russian elite keeps elsewhere, ( where exactly? and how much?) and trying to figure out how this particular factor is going to play out under the circumstances.
Scrat, there was a second link I left earlier, with a study on a subject.
If you have patience to go through all 47 pages of it - here it goes ( an excerpt)
"Yet the consequences on the distribution of income and wealth of the dramatic
transformations that occurred since 1989-1990 are not very well documented and
understood. There is no doubt that income inequality has increased substantially
since 1989-1990, at least in part because monetary inequality was unusually—and to
some extent artificially—low under Communism. But little is known about the exact
magnitude of the increase. Which income and wealth classes have benefited the
most from the post-Soviet transition, and in what proportions?"
You live in some insignificant backwaters kind of place, that doesn't have any weight, (and which is wealthier than many other parts of the country,) so no one cares.
The action takes place usually in the bigger cities ( as I've said before Moscow - that's where politics matter, and that's where the authorities are on guard.)
And on and on it goes, so I have no idea what fairy-tales are you telling here.
Now.
When it comes to the SPECIFIC protests against the newest "pension reform" - I think the authorities are very weary about the whole situation, Putin including.
And as far as I know the protests are scheduled in Moscow on July 28th.
So we'll see what happens.
Oh Yes, it certainly riots)))) don't make me laugh. for a couple of years there is a selection and selected the juiciest fragments provoked specifically to the camera. 1000-5000 people in 15,000,000 megalopolis? It's less than 0.02%, and it's everywhere . The number of demonstrators who protested 0.02% of the population, Yes, it is an undoubted success. The most important thing is that the right media, copied the right pictures.
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