Perspective on current Russia

by Alexey Mineev (Проект Кино telegram in Russian) for the Saker’s blog. “It is the economy, stupid.” It is the corruption, stupid. The reason that President Putin just undertook the major government shake-up axing PM Medvedev, his economy handling deputies and the minister, as well as several underperforming ministers, is undoubtedly the government’s failure to invigorate economic growth in last years. The plague of the country’s poverty is only the consequence