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This is the most serious issue relating to this war - Russia is getting poor. "Poor" not in terms of money but in terms of the people. Young patriotic professionals constitute any country's wealth. What's been happening since 2022 is alarming. I am afraid it'll have bad consequences for Russia in the long run.
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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I think you can see it in the innovation index. Russia's biggest capital is not its oil or money. It's the Russian people especially the well educated have fled in droves since the war began.
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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Believe me we don't find any of that funny I can guarantee you we literally don't care where you go but we will make you move regardless and Putin is what 71? He will die as all dictators die.
Violently, alone and before his time.
The truth will set you free one day and luckily it doesn't care about your ignorance or lack of understanding.
Your trust in your little dictator is misplaced and you highly underestimate what Russia got itself into. Watch and learn the next 6 to 10 months will be highly educational.
Anyways, cheers and have fun in whatever may be left of Russia's Potemkin village. So far the performance has been laughable and rather pathetic. I hope Putin can do better than that.
Generally, we had as much quarrel with Russia before this invasion as ant is having a quarrel with a boot. Russia just doesn't get who the ant and who the boot is.
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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I think Bob it is because money has made us hard and unkind we lost sight of what is truly important: Friends, family and enjoying things not for what they are worth but just because they are there. This appreciation and mindfulness went away.
Although of course the living conditions of many Russians are not that romantic it is more like a literal fight for survival on a daily basis.
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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Putin is a KGB Agent and already Orwell had the following to say about the NKVD: "They are trained to be liars, they made lying into a profession".
So, no I really think Putin never tells the truth, but that is the trick: Who would ever believe that someone could lie all the time? That is also why we cannot negotiate with this man. None of that is in good faith. Putin would break the agreements he makes the moment he sees fit. We can for example see how much Russia'e word in the Budapest memorandum was worth. They fired Rockets at Ukraine given to them by Ukraine as part of this deal.
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"content": "Fascism is a lie told by bullies. Hemingway\n\nHow poverty, corruption, and lies cement Putin's power\n\nPutin's regime ensures that Russians have little time to care about Putin and his entourage by keeping the vast majority of Russians in a constant state of fighting for their economic survival.\n\nToday, the latest corruption perception index was published. Russia is shares rank 137 with Mali and Paraguay. Afghanistan is only 13 places away behind them. Ukraine, on the other hand, continued its slight upward trend from last year. They rank at place 116 in the new ranking. While Ukraine has a long way to go, Russia really hasn't got much further to fall.\n\nTo understand Russia, we need to understand just two numbers: 144 and 72.\n\nThe Global Wealth Report states that 144 (!) russians hold over 38 percent of Russia's wealth. The top 1 percent of their population holds 72 percent of this wealth. The bottom 50 percent of Putin's subjects have less than 870 dollars in net worth. Net-worth is a measure that refers to all the assets you own, including money, real estate, and other assets.\n\nWhen it comes to tyrants, dictators, and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand. Kevin McCarthy\n\nThis inequality is created by design. The center of power is Moscow and St. Petersburg.\n\nThere, many citizens have quite good living standards, not on a Western level but still quite good. The rest of the Russian empire is poorer by design. That is also the reason why Russia cannot accept a strong, wealthy, and democratic Ukraine. Putin cannot accept a country next door that becomes more democratic and less corrupt as this would seriously endanger the continued existence of his mafia empire.\n\nA free and vibrant Ukraine would topple the Russian imperial model. Putin is, therefore, willing to make this fascist turn. It is also far from over. I would say we are maybe halfway there. Martial law and closing the borders would be the next step towards a full-blown dictatorship, including canceling the elections next year. I think Putin always planned this fascist turn, but much later, as he expected to encounter almost no resistance from Ukraine.\n\nFascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.\nFriedrich August von Hayek\n\nRussia will never be the same again, as change comes slowly, and for Russia to find its way back, it may well take another generation or two. Many Russians are unaware of that, but the shift towards fascism will not be that easily reversed.\n\nEven when Putin is gone, people will have other things to worry about. Humans are easily fooled, but much harder to convince that they have been fooled.\n\n1) The HDI Index\n\nThe Human Development Index (HDI) provides a single index measure to capture three key dimensions of human development. Russia ranks somewhere outside of the top 50 in this report. However, the reality inside Russia is far bleaker than this rosy number may suggest. Russia was always good at one thing: To lie about their data. However, you cannot hide everything, and you cannot hide it forever.\n\nNo government agency has a jurisdiction over the truth. X-Files\n\n2) How long do Russians live on average?\n\nIn 2022, Russia ranked at place 113. The situation is probably much bleaker, with over 800k Covid19 deaths and at least 100.000 young men who died in this war. Russia has the highest rates of alcoholics, HIV positive, and TBC in Europe. These facts don't really speak for an ever growing life expectancy among their male population.\n\nTherefore, Peter Zeihan assumes that the life expectancy for men might be much lower, the official data of Rosstat suggests. I tend to agree with that assessment. The last good batch of data was provided in 2001. Back then, the life expectancy of men was 58.7 years. Now, 20 years later, it has risen to over 67 years for males. This is either a modern wonder of medicine or Russia is lying. The data that is obtainable from other sources suggests that it is the latter.\n\nNothing built on a lie, however, seductively convenient, could ever have any value. George Orwell\n\n3) Literacy Rate\n\nTheir literacy rate is at almost 100 percent, even though the Russian apprentice ship system collapsed in the 1990s. Since then, many young and educated people have fled the country in various emigration waves. Since the war began, over 1 million Russians have fled the country. Russia has been heavily defunding the education sector for decades now. This high literarcy rate comes with a caveat.\n\nAutocratic regimes need to ensure that their population is able to read and write. Otherwise, they cannot understand the propaganda their leaders want them to internalise. There are many infamous books written by dictators. They range from \"Mein Kampf\" to Gadaffi's \"little green book\" and there are many more.\n\n4) Infant Mortality\n\nRussian infant mortality rates have steadily decreased since their economic collapse in the 1990s. They rank way outside the top 50 though, Their infant mortality rate is twice as high as those of highly developed nations such as Austria or Germany, however, the US has very bad results here as well as 5.44 out of every 1000 children die in infant age.\n\nRussia achieved respectable results here.\n\n5) Doctors per 1000 inhabitants\n\nThe latest data is from 2018, which means the data provided has only limited validity. Russia ranks somewhere outside the top 20. This doesn't say anything about the quality of the service that is provided just the quantity of doctors.\n\nWhile the quality of healthcare that is provided in Moscow or Petersburg is quite good, in the rural areas, it is a lot worse.\n\nRussia is ranking somewhere outside of the top 20.\n\nThe effects of this lack of doctors, the overall bad healthcare system outside the main urban centers, as well as the ineffectiveness of Sputnik against the new variants, could explain the highest death toll any European country had to pay per capita because of the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic.\n\nRussia has a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths for 2022.\n\n6) Infrastructure and Innovation Index\n\nThe data about their infrastructure is from 2019, which ranks them at place 73. Again, Russia is way outside the top 50 nations.\n\nRussian roads have long had an infamous reputation. Where they existed, they were often crumbling or unpaved and insufficient for major traffic. Perhaps most strikingly, while the Trans-Siberian Railroad is still considered to be one of Russia's major achievements, the Trans-Siberian Highway was only completed in 2015, more than 110 years later.\n\nThe highway, which is actually a series of connected roads, represents the first time that one could travel a continual stretch of paved road from St. Petersburg is in the far west of Russia with Vladivostok in the Far East.\n\nThe current war in Ukraine will make this problem much worse as the war in Ukraine forces Russia to make budget cuts. As the war continues, more and more funds will be diverted to sectors critical for the war effort, while others will be left further and further behind as time goes on.\n\nInnvovation Index for 2022\n\nThe Global Innovation Index (GII) tracks the most recent global innovation trends against the background of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, slowing productivity growth and other evolving challenges. The ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges.\n\nIn the 2021 report, Russia ranked at place 45, and now they fell down to rank 47, and their score decreased from 36.6 down to 34.3. The massive brain drain and the war in Ukraine, as well as this massive crackdown on free thought in Russia, will set them for a further downgrading outside of the top 50 in the near future.\n\n7) Corruption, poverty and wealth distribution\n\nAt the bottom of many of Russia's problems is the widespread poverty in many of its regions. Especially the those regions east of the Ural mountains are massively striken by poverty. Poverty is running rampant in many parts of Russia, especially in its far east and rural regions. Over 20 percent of Russian households do not have a running water toilet.\n\nMany areas have no access to clean water or electricity. While Russia may want the world to believe that it is a rich and powerful nation, behind this facade lies something more sad and bleak. Putin's Russia is an extractive empire. All its revenues and all taxes are flowing to Moscow while the rural regions are living in utter poverty and despair.\n\nNations fail today because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.\"\n― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\n\nPoverty\n\nThe monthly minimum wage in Russia is 12,310 rubles, which is the equivalent of $196. While Russia is a very resource-rich country, it suffers from intense social inequality. The top 1 percent of the Russian population controls 71% of the nation's wealth. 13 percent of Russians are currently living in poverty. Unfortunately, the majority of people living in extreme poverty are children.\n\nAlso, 60 percent of those living below the poverty line in Russia are families with children.\n\nAs a result of social inequality, child poverty in Russia continues to rise. Currently, one in four Russian children lives below the poverty line. Additionally, 26 percent of Russian children live off of close to $150 per month. Child poverty in Russia is most prevalent in rural areas, as many do not have access to employment opportunities in most cases.\n\nThis poverty has fostered a deeply rooted and century long system of lies and corruption in Russia\n\nAccording to the Russian government, corruption caused losses of at least 58 billion rubles ($1 bn) in 2020, up from 55 billion rubles in 2019. Out of 10,879 officials charged with corruption, 1,337 (12.3%) were from the Ministry of Defense — the second biggest cohort.\n\nThe largest number of recorded corruption-related crimes were committed in the field of public order and security, accounting for 19.9% (4,521) of the total. The Ministry of Defense recorded a 30% jump in the number of persons charged with corruption.\n\nWealth distribution and living costs\n\nThe extreme inequality in income and net worth in Russia between the richest and the poorest creates many social problems. This makes it easier for Putin to control his own people. Russia mostly lacks a real middle class. You are either rich or as poor as someone living in a tier 4 economy. There is not much in between. In 2020, Russia ranked on place 57 of the GINI Index.\n\nThe reality today is much bleaker than this. The current Russian system has no interest in bringing value to the many but rather unspoken riches to the few. Putin's henchmen want freedom only for themselves, while the people shall remain enslaved. Russia has steadily declined in this index since 2012, roughly the time when Putin made his turn towards autocracy.\n\nHistory reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. Robert Kiyosaki\n\nSummary and Conclusion\n\nRussia is rich in resources. However, that doesn't translate into a good life for a vast majority of its citizens. This is the fault of the policy makers in Moscow who designed the system to be that way. While Russians have to struggle for their survival, they have little to no time to worry about what Putin does or doesn't do. Russians have externalised politics, and the results are not pretty. The Russian economy took a heavy hit last year and will continue taking hits for as long as this war continues.\n\nA fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace\n\nIn Russia, there is no rule of the law but the law of rulers. If we do not want to live in such a society, then we have to remain vigilant and protect our democratic values as human life is valuable, and every human on earth deserves a good life. Under a fascist dictator that cannot ever be achieved.\n\nDear reader, thanks for reading my article.\n\nPlease consider clapping, commenting, or following me on Medium.\n\nOh, and did you know about this little trick? If you press the clap button for 15 seconds you can clap 50 times at once.\n\nTake care and be well.\n\nAppendix:\n\nGenerally, we can divide countries along these income level categories\n\nHigh income countries: 32 dollars or more in daily income. (Tier 1)\n\nExamples: USA, GER, UK, F, ESP, Italy etc.\n\nUpper middle income countries: 8 to 32 dollars of daily income. (Tier 2)\n\nExamples: Bulgaria, China, Russia, etc.\n\nLow middle income countries: 4 to 8 dollars of daily income. (Tier 3)\n\nExamples: Vietnam, India, Ukraine, etc.\n\nLow income countries: 1 to 4 dollars of daily income. (Tier 4)\n\nRwanda Taijikistan, Syria, Burundi, etc.",
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