The consumer inflation rate in Russia reached 8.3% in October. With the decline in the Ruble, all imports continue to become more expensive. Russian citizens are bombarded with propaganda claiming it is not Putin's fault, but how long will they believe it? Perhaps he will have to invade another country to distract his people from their disaster of an economy.
Putin is doing what the Russian people want, that's why his ratings are the highest they have ever been. The Russian economy is good enough for him to keep Merkel waiting for two hours and not budging in anything...to their chagrin. The E.U. will have to support forty million Ukrainians to keep them from freezing which makes one wonder if all these sanctions was to destroy Europe...and specifically Germany, and even maybe to start a war between Europe and Russia. This way the Washington sociopaths could buy up the remains. If I recall, Germany was quite proud of its economic success' and began thinking of asserting its own foreign policy. Also Russia wanted to unite the E.U. with China into a large economic union which would have drowned the U.S. Could this be why the U.S. did not return Germany's gold when they asked for it? Anyway Russia and China dropping U.S. bonds, and buying up gold seems very ominous to me. What do they know that we don't know?
No, he does not. Russian people understand the situation and they support Putin. All these difficulties are only temporary, the government will solve their problems. Russian people are much hardier then spoiled be easy life westerners. Putin enjoys high popularity in his country and in many other countries.
The good choice for Putin to invade Brazil (Simply for one day) then many Americans will forget about Ukraine . (about which, none of them didn't hear a year ago.)
Yesterday asked my brother who lives in Russia - crisis didn't come yet? He answered - ''we, all life have crisis'', - we already got used. (and we will endure this...)
Kiwi, I have many friends in Russia. They wrote that in big cities the life did not change much. Besides, in rural Russia, people keep vegetable gardens, cows and other agricultural animals. They do not depend on imported foods. Farmers, of course, will use the opportunity to fill the gap in supplying foods to cities. Russian products are better quality, because they are natural. Even Germans realize this.
Good, I absolutely support these views, Russia is getting exactly what it deserves - never ending crisis. And they have themselves only to blame, when things in Russia were good and prosperous and Russia was welcomed into the civilized world it chose to get in bed with Iran, North Korea, Chavez and other a*sholes, invaded Georgia and annexed Ukraine.... PS Crisis is going to get a hell of a lot worse, tell your brother to prepare.
Lol, what do u call civilized world? The one which is dominated by one state and where others are just its puppets? The one which is full of lies and hipocrisy? Where the human life cost nothing when its turning to profit of this ruling state? No thanks. Times changes, its time for a multipolar world. Those who is used to be a world ruler understand it and trying hard to turn it back. Thats why everything is concentrated on harming Russia, the only state who has balls to opposite the Empire of Chaos. We gone through lots of crisis, this one won't kill us, too bad for u, well known russophob. The world is not only US and Europe, i don't mind to be isolated from them, according to all the sh*t this so called civilized world brings to others. Partnership with East and South America is much more profitable for Russia, and finally we are changing the course. In math if u ve got false basic data u ll never get correct result. If u believe that Russia invaded Georgia or Ukraine i won't be surprised to find out that Santa Claus exists in ur mind.
Remind me please these time?When Russia was as a part of the USSR -Russia invited all to civilized Russia? Also did these countries civilized - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan ...? Monument to Lenin — in the city of Ashgabat. (Turkmenistan) Inscription Leninism - a way to liberation of the people of the EAST
Well, tell me about a country that is not bombarded by propaganda. Since your posts is a direct consequence of US propaganda. I mean how any person can talk about a life in another country without even talking to the locals and understanding the language of the country. I have a vague idea of life in US but that only concern like health statistics and that's all. I don't know how people in US live and what are they afraid of. At least I have US friends and I can speak English. You must be a real genius to understand things you understand without language and locals. ... or maybe you just belive in your own propaganda machine, who indocrinates you, so you don't even think about those simple things
It's hardly Putin's fault that Russia is being sanctioned for a civil war in Ukraine. A civil war that the US continues to support, incidentally, by supporting and supplying one side of it, no matter how many people it kills, making the US at best no better than Russia, but in a better position to act the hypocrite and get away with it.
China has systematically diversified its currency globally. When some currency is down, another will be up so China will be able to trudge on along. Russia buying a couple billion in gold is no big deal in light of their other problems. They are trying to bolster their own bond ratings I suppose. The US will face a bond bubble in about 8 or 9 years at the same time the global baby boomer retirements start to drain cash off the financial system globally. As for Germany, it never really makes sense to me how Americans are fixated with Germany having an export economy is bad, but then all our national policy is about having a stronger export economy too. The US doesn't need to start a war between europe and russia. The EU and Russia are doing a pretty good job racing to the bottom all on their own.
A young man who works for me and his family immigrated from Russia and have family in Russia. I have no reason to disbelieve their comments on the differences of life in Russia and in the US. In the US we have a press which is free enough to criticize our own actions and policies. The press in Russia? Not so much. If life in the US is so terrible, why do people all over the world try to immigrate here? Do people all over the world try to immigrate to Russia? Come and visit the US sometime Vasily, you'll like it.
1) I never told that live in US is terrible, please pay attention at the post you are quoting/answering 2) Unless your person is a analitic of press, I do not think he knows enough data to compare how free US press is relative to Russian press. One family is one opinion. The only way to search for the truth is to question two groups of people who have diametrically opposed views on the topic. I'm not sure if you did that. 3) I was speaking to another person and he claims he knows the situation in countries he never did extensive research about. He doesn't know our language. It is impossible to comprehend the life in another coutnry unless you read its press, listen to its radio watch their programms and speak to their people, then you can have a glimpse of it. I do not know about US, the only side of US that I've reseached extensively is health/food/pharma that's all. I can say that in US I can see the potential future if we go the same food and drugs path and I educate people using data from US. Since in US there is a third generation of people on such foods and with such conditions and in Russia is only the second, but that's an offtopic. I don't understand what are we debating here. You are commenting on my post, but you are not making a point, also you are twisting my comments a bit. I'm sure I'll like it, why not. I do not want to live in US though, since I have some things I wanna do in life and they can only be done in the home country.
8.3% inflation? that is not sustainable in any economy. Mind you, its citizens haven't exactly enjoyed a great standard of living - ever. Putin is in trouble, but he appeals to a Russian people searching for global relevance and their seeming lost patriotic pride. Cue conservatives - Obama's sanctions had nothing to do with Putin's economic problems - just to be clear.
Russia worships Stalin as a Saint, and Putin by extension. They are used to dictatorship and the cult of personality. knowing this, they probably wont blam Putin for a while
